After a long time away, Earl Tubbs comes home to Craw County, Alabama to clear out the house of a relative moved to a nursing home. With a legendary father and himself a one-time legend on the football field, the place has a lot of memories and a lot of demons, but nothing as potent or dangerous as the living bastards in the here and now. Coach Buless Boss now runs the county the same way he runs the football team, and when Earl intervenes in an altercation he finds himself obliged to step up into his hated father's role of dealing out justice with a hefty stick.

Rich, redolent, soaked with raw passion secrets, crime and violence, Southern Bastards is a brilliant, brutal drama, and a tough, bruising thriller.