Howard “Hambone” Hamblin, Hal Peterson, and Charles Belcher, three retired working-class heroes who are dismayed by the onset of globalization and the illegal immigration that goes along with it, set out to do something to rectify the situation. Their efforts bring them into conflict with enemies that they’d never recognized as enemies before, and their task becomes overwhelming and daunting. Bonnie Cummings, a young woman with big dreams and high aspirations, encounters a similar problem in another part of California, but she takes a far different tact in an effort to overcome, and is forced to deal with drug lords, street thugs, and sociopathic killers. In the end, their trails become entangled, and the enormity of the problem is exposed from multiple angles.