Soon after an African-America Sheriff of a small desert town loses her gun and covers up her mistake, she finds herself investigating a series of shootings. But when she discovers the victims are members of a white supremacist group, the Sheriff begins to suspect her own son is the shooter.

SYNOPSIS:

Dana, a city cop, mistakenly shoots a child carrying a water gun, so takes her young son, Chandler, to live in a small town. Years later, as Sheriff, she struggles to raise a teenage Chandler, and remains haunted by her past.

Chandler regularly falls victim to racism in the community and dreams of escaping. After being attacked by skinheads, he attempts to buy a gun. That same night, Dana takes a cocktail of prescription drugs and passes out. When she wakes, her gun is missing.

When a body is found full of bullets, Dana finds evidence linking the victim to the KKK; a photo of five men in Klan robes and a campaign flyer for Rick O’Brien, a man seeking to replace Dana as Sheriff, using “a white Sheriff for a white county” as his slogan.

When Chandler meets a drifter, Nathan, he teaches the boy to shoot and the two become friends. Chandler learns that Nathan has strong ideas about right and wrong, that the law does not mean justice, that the right are obliged to punish the wrong.

When a junkyard owner sees Chandler with a gun on his property he reports it to Dana. She confronts her son, claiming retaliation is a weak man’s idea of strength. Chandler is angry. He sees his father, KIA during military service as a fighter, but sees Dana as an apathetic, as cop and a mother. He slams down one of O’Brien’s flyers, telling her she’s a joke, and storms from the house.

The next day a skinhead is found murdered, and Dana learns he’d been distributing O’Brien’s flyers when he was shot. O’Brien uses the slayings to his advantage, holding a meeting at the town hall, claiming Dana’s inherent racial bias prevents her from doing her job.

But a Farmer opens fire on O’Brien and his campaign staff, killing one and injuring O’Brien. Manning, the Sheriff’s deputy, shoots the gunman dead. Dana pleads with O’Brien to cancel his impending rally, but with the suspected shooter dead, O’Brien refuses.

But when ballistics prove the farmer who shot up the town hall was not responsible for the previous killings, and Dana finds her son’s friend shot dead after he and the friend get in a fight, she searches Chandler’s room and finds her gun.

Dana manipulates evidence. She plants her drugs on the body and stashes the gun in her dealer’s car.

Chandler discovers that Nathan has a swastika and other Klan affiliated tattoos, he returns home to his mother.

Dana takes Chandler to see his father, alive, but suffering from PTSD and living on the streets. She confesses that she lied to protect him. Chandler tries to talk to his father but realises that he does not even recognise his own son.

With nobody left to trust, Chandler returns to the only father figure he had. Nathan. Chandler confronts him about his racist tattoos and learns that Nathan is O’Brien’s son and was taught to hate.

Nathan reveals that he intends to kill all the local Klansmen. He presents Chandler with a choice; take the gun used in the shootings and hand it to the law, or take the gun and join him?

Chandler joins Nathan at O’Brien’s campaign rally, armed. At the same rally, Dana takes charge of protecting the very same white supremacist campaigning to replace her as Sheriff.