One great legend portrays another in this critically acclaimed, highly original Western.
Willie Nelson is Barbarosa, a notorious outlaw whose name is both feared and hated by residents of a Mexican village.
He is married to Josephina (Isela Vega), but her father, Don Braulio (Gilbert Roland), despises him-so much, in fact, that he has given his sons the mission of killing Barbarosa.
Undaunted, Barbarosa creeps into the village by night to see his wife; by day he outruns and outwits his would-be assassins.
When Barbarosa meets Karl (Gary Busey), a naive farmhand also on the run for an accidental killing, he decides to teach him the tricks of his trade.