Follows a debt-strapped Austin salesman who borrows his neighbor's prized rooster in a desperate attempt to turn his life around. When the bird dies and he secretly replaces it, his neighbor sets out to uncover the truth.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

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