Joshua Miller is a good looking mechanic with a drinking problem, a beautiful wife, Ruth, and a conscience. Nevertheless, he will do whatever it takes to support his family during the 1930's depression, including bootlegging whiskey stolen from the mafia. Clayton Kendall is an Oklahoma State Senator with an ego problem, a bitter wife, and no conscience. He'll do whatever it takes, too, including blackmailing anyone who crosses him. Miller loves America and sees political power as a means to keep it great. Kendall knows political power is an end in itself. Joshua must face his demons in order to keep Clayton from tearing his marriage apart. Kendall is a killer, yet Miller is put on trial. Despite very different backgrounds and professions, the two men are pitted against each other again and again as their lives unfold in this story of love, politics, infidelity, power and murder. Can justice be served when one of the most powerful, popular leaders in the state has twisted truth?