Returning decorated from Vietnam War just to be informed his beloved girl friend has get married, Frank Vega is still unable to find a job and has to earn his living by selling hot dogs. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a bus where he protects a black man from two abusive skin heads makes him a local hero. But his becoming famous soon turns out to get him in troubles when his best friend Klondike is killed and the police are doing lttle to nothing about it