The 1953 Southeaster Fair is about to begin in Atlanta, Georgia, and Johnny Morocco, the Dixie Detective, has been hired to guard a prize stud bull being shown at the animal exhibits. What he isn't told is the reason. Recently some of the best stud bulls, horses, and pigs in the south have been castrated. Late one night when Johnny is sleeping in a stock trailer not far from the bull he's protecting, he's awakened by the sound of an animal in agony—a bull being castrated. When the man with the knife comes after Johnny, he shoots and kills him. Now the dead man's three brothers and their father have come to Atlanta with revenge on their minds...