At the height of the mad cow epidemic in 1996, an elderly couple sells their West Texas ranch to rescue her family's ravished cattle farm in Scotland. After they arrive at the docks of Edinburgh with a replacement herd, they soon discover the British Minister of Agriculture has placed the animals on quarantine, effectively locking up the cattle to face euthanasia. Faced with an looming bank deadline that threatens to shut down the four hundred year old farm, the ranchers, along with their drover grandsons, stage a daring late night cattle breakout. As they frantically drive the cattle to Haddington Moor, the global news media picks up on the breakout and broadcasts the event to a worldwide audience eager for modern-day cowboy heroes....