1920年代弗吉尼亚某小镇，矿工们不满自己的悲惨待遇举行罢工，矿工由白人矿工为主导，意大利移民坚持下井工作，黑人矿工则被白人矿工视为工贼。Joe,一位抱持和平主义的工运领导者来到这个小镇，希望将工人门组织起来并使用和平、理、非暴力手段与矿主谈判。他成功的将白人和黑人统一起来，让他们意识到团结才是最有力的武器，但最终他还是失败了，他的和平主义理念无法对抗现实，他在无法避免的枪战中被子弹击中。

They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they d... They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you got to know about the enemy. (展开)