A Vietnam veteran goes hunting in a desert area of Texas, and discovers several vehicles with bullet holes, half a dozen dead men and one dying, all as a result of a failed exchange of drugs for money. He also finds packages of heroin and a briefcase containing $2.4 million. From this moment on, the violence begins relentlessly until the end. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the Coen brothers win several Oscars for the film. Through suspense and violence the author seems to propose a reflection on the moral state of society; he even mentions abortion and euthanasia.