Two men, a wanderer in need of water, and a sophisticated lowlife, having been thrown out of the saloon and in need of money, meet face to face in the town street.
When the deputy of a small town's sheriff's office is humiliated by the fattest and meanest bandit in the area, he draws a wanted poster with a big reward on the head of the bandit. This starts a chain reaction of killings and fraudulence.