In this dark-humored action thriller, Lee Marvin is fugitive Jimmy Cobb, A ruthless American gangster on the run from the law in the south of France. When a daring bank heist goes horribly wrong, Jimmy is forced to flee with millions in cash on a desperate cross-country escape. He mistakenly takes refuge in the farmhouse of a demented backwoods French family. The tables are soon turned on Jimmy when the strange clan begins terrorizing the outlaw… and the body count starts to rise.