Yak Darnell once known as the Outlaw Breaker no longer carries a gun. When there is a conflict between cattlemen and sheep men and a man is shot, Yak is framed.
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Yak Darnell, a man who has consciously shed his past as "The Outlaw Breaker" and his firearm, finds his newfound peace shattered. A simmering territorial dispute between cattle and sheep ranchers erupts into violence, leading to a murder. Darnell, despite his attempts at reform, becomes the convenient scapegoat, framed for the crime. Forced to flee a vengeful lynch mob, he is compelled to revert to his former identity, picking up the gun he had laid down, thus signaling a return to the very lawlessness he sought to escape, now in a desperate fight for survival and justice.
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