"The truth, as Lowell said, is forever on the scaffold." - Will Culp. Editor of the town newspaper, Will Culp (Whit Bissell), has more than his share of bad habits, and being a dipsomaniac with a pen in hand and a public forum may be the least of them. The water in the local tannery may be polluted, or is it? Will has put it all in the paper, but things aren't always what they seem and Will may have an agenda or an accomplice helping him out with the story. Something very fishy is going on here, all right, and The Deputy foiling a lynching may be the only way to sort things out. But where does that leave Will? On horseback being escorted out of town, and not on holiday it seems, but by the forces of law and order headed toward judgment day in a courtroom. Inspired by Henrik Ibsen's classic play "An Enemy of the People".