Nate Tanner owns The Black Pelican bar and is having trouble with local "gangster" Wild Bill and his accompanying thugs. Wild Bill tries to force Nate to sell his place so he can use it for drug trafficking and in a brutal deadly ambush, Nate is left for dead and his bar is left vulnerable and open for a hostile takeover by Wild Bill. But to Bill's surprise, Shane, Nate's nephew, inherits the bar. Shane fights to save the bar, romance the girl and save his uncle Nate in the corrupt Bayou town.