Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping
out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and
fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way
for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas,
disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and
witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to
investigate.
When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of
workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs
for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for
the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for
long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're
far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down.