Hector Riley, old, crippled, and a hermit, lives in a crooked little house near Ironton, Ohio. He never leaves his house and seems completely harmless, but someone wants to kill him. Sam Martin has been hired by this mysterious someone to kill Hector as soon as he leaves his shack on the hillside. He is forbidden to kill Hector within a mile of the house, but Hector never leaves. Sam tries to lure him away, even though he has reservations about...