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A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs.

Most Westerns focus on cattle wars and gunfights, but this oddity centers on the social chaos caused by a lone man driving sheep through a beef-obsessed town. It trades traditional frontier violence for a sharp, satirical look at how quickly a community turns on anyone who breaks their unspoken rules.

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