Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain chieftan in a retro-fitted ‘40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable folk healing grandmother, evades federal agents, and stokes the wrath of a rival runner, all while trying to unravel the mystery of who killed his father and left his mother mute many moons ago.