When Maj. Charles Rane (William Devane) returns home to San Antonio, he is given a hero's welcome. He and his friend John Vohden (Tommy Lee Jones) had endured eight years of torture in a POW camp. The adjustment to his old life hasn't been easy-his wife has fallen in love with another man and his son doesn't remember him. But when a group of hoodlums kills his wife and son, he and Vohden team up to get revenge! Quentin Tarantino cites this neo-noir action-thriller as one of his favorite films.