Incarcerated in a POW camp for eight years during the Vietnam War, Major Charles Rane returns back home as a national hero and is awarded a silver dollar for every day of his ordeal. Despite the positive press coverage of a returning hero, the reality is far different. Alienated from his family and institutionalised, he sleeps in the garage unable to adjust to normal life. An attack by criminals seeking the silver dollars leaves him maimed and his wife and son dead. He survives the ordeal and seeks revenge, knowing that it will bring him no peace or serve any purpose. It is simply the only option he has.