Montana is home to Northfork. This once thriving town is about to be flooded as a new damn is being built to provide electricity for those living further away. But some people in Northfork are just not willing to leave the town. The electric company send in six men to persuade the last residents to leave. Walter O’Brien (James Woods) finds he may be no match for this group of eccentric people who have taken over the local town bar. There is Flower Hercules (Daryl Hannah), Happy (Anthony Edwards and Cup of Tea (Robin Sachs). These people just want to be left alone to live. O’Brien also encounters a priest, Father Harlan (Nick Nolte) who is caring for a dying boy. If O’Brien and his crew cannot get the town cleared successfully, they will not get the reward promised them from the electric company. With the town set to flood soon, the crew must succeed.