At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

我的故乡高淳，位于江苏省西南端与安徽省交界的地方，恰好是“吴头楚尾”。地势东省交界的寺主， 恰好是“吴头楚尾”。地势东高西低。东部是茅山山脉和天目山山脉的衔接处，山高林茂，俗称“山乡”；西部为丹阳湖、石臼湖、小南湖三湖所环绕，溪河交错，苇岸无穷，俗称“圩乡”。最早的县治固城始建于公元前五四一年，比楚威王筑石头城置金陵邑（前三三三年）还早二百来年，可称古邑。
到我出生的时候，固城早已荒废，县治淳溪镇也是一个仅数千户人家的小镇。镇上只有一条三米多宽、青石板铺面的弯曲小街，俗称老街。……