In the Fall of 1865, a sharp-shooting twelve-year-old Black American with Down syndrome outwits a gang of bumbling ex-Confederate rebels to track down his father they've kidnapped and save him from a lynching.

SYNOPSIS:

The war's over and black American, ex-Union Army sharp-shooter, Willie Telberg is tasked with fulfilling his late wife’s mission to educate their twelve-year-old son Waldo, who has Down syndrome. Free settlers, they ekeout a living on a small property near the fictional Kansas township of “Lauraville"– sadly void of eligible men, casualty of the last 4 years.

In town to sell their freshly shot rabbits to help pay for Waldo's learning books, they encounter a small gang of ex-Confederate rebels terrorizing the citizens. Their leader, engineer Captain Albert Greeser, on hearing of Willie's shooting prowess, strikes a deal to save the town, and puts Willie's reputation to the test, a la William Tell – a test that could prove fatal for his son. But Willie is up to the task.

When the gang vacates the town, and take Willie hostage, a delegation of women set off overnight to seek the assistance of the sheriff from the neighboring town. Waldo, however, takes it upon himself to liberate his father.

Using all the skills he's learned over the years, he tracks his father to the gang's camp, only to witness Willie about to be lynched. Like father, like son, Waldo proves a crack shot with a rifle and severs the rope, allowing Willie to flee and join his son in the fray.

Disarmed and in disarray, the rebels are trudged back into Lauraville to the waiting lawman and posse from the neighboring town.

A unanimous vote sees Willie appointed first sheriff of Lauraville. But the town has no jail. No problem. Greeser and his cohort are sentenced to indentured servitude to build not only the jail, but all the other structures the town lacks; city hall, library, school ...

With Greeser and the other villains on the road to redemption, and most of the posse staying on – seduced by the prospect of a willing mate – Sheriff Willie Telberg and son begin their new lives … keeping law and order ... and occasionally supplying the women with fresh rabbits to supplement the 'meat' now offered by the new men in their lives.