SYNOPSIS
In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880’s, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman’s rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang – the brothers wanted for a brutal rape and murder. But while Charlie (Guy Pearce) and Mikey are taken prisoner, the gangs psychopathic leader escapes to their hideout in the hills. Determined to finish the job, the lawman makes Charlie a proposition – find his fugitive brother, kill him and young Mikey will be saved from the gallows.