Synopsis

Mac is a violent, train hopping, drifter who has found himself wandering from small town to small town during the Great Depression. He is a sadist with no compunction about using robbery, or even murder, to survive. Although he seems happy-go-lucky, he can become annoyed or angered easily. To Mac, the world, and everything in it, are up for grabs to someone who is not afraid to use violence as a tool.
Mac finds himself in the small town of Lago, which has had experience with murderers, and the citizenry are in fear of newcomers. As he drifts into a local bar, he picks up information about the town’s wealthy doctor, who makes weekly bank deposits. After confirming this as true, he decides to stay a week in Lago with the aim of robbing the doctor during his next deposit. He spends a week committing petty robberies and drinking to excess until the day he can rob the doctor in an alleyway next to the bank. In a simple twist of fate, murderous Mac is killed by the more experienced murderer, old Doc Holmes; reminding all that no matter how big and bad a person may be, there’s always someone bigger and badder…and more horrific…out there.