The film centers on three people in a border New Mexico county. Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel) is the local sheriff. The county has recently hired a new parole officer (Brenda Brethyn) who is fair and honest. William Garnett (a slim Forest Whitaker) has been recently paroled. He was a drug dealer working for Terence (Luis Guzmán) and he also killed the deputy (One Clapton mystery solved.)

Agati feels it is his duty to see Garnett fail while Smith wants to see him succeed. Everybody bumps heads in this low action drama.

The acting was good. I really wished they gave the characters a little more colorful personality, as it was bordering on boring realism. The film is nearly two hours long and the drama moves slow. Characters are built up and not read to you. A well put together film that was too long and too slow for my taste.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Violence is at a distance and not graphic.