Butch Shilton and Joe Peters are both out of work when fate deals them a ten-year stretch in prison. But they soon find themselves the only survivors of the massacre at Empire Fastness Way Station and they set out to track down the killers. However, Butch and Joe are accused of the massacre, and, faced with a posse on their trail and the killers of Empire Fastness Way Station hunting them down, their chances of survival are slim ...