An aging former gunfighter, once a notorious killer now scraping by as a widowed hog farmer raising two children, is lured out of retirement by the promise of a bounty on the men who mutilated a prostitute. Riding alongside an old partner and a boastful young greenhorn, he confronts a brutal town sheriff and his own violent past. Clint Eastwood directs and stars in a somber, revisionist Western that strips the myth of the gunslinger to its grim bone, meditating on aging, guilt and the true weight of killing in one of the genre's defining late masterworks.