In an impoverished, crime-ridden Texas town called Blackwood, Enoch Ford arrives to work as a railroad brakeman. Fresh out of prison, he befriends a rail man called Doc who finds in Enoch the perfect partner for a simple heist: lifting copper wire off the cars in the middle of the night to fence.
But when Enoch finds human cargo instead, he becomes a de facto guardian and begins a violent revenge odyssey through which he will stop at nothing to protect three Belarusian children.
Souls and lives are at stake. Unfathomable evil has to be dealt with. And there is no one in Blackwood, Texas but a no-account ex-con for the job.
