hobo with a shotgun

A hobo, (Rutger Hauer), arrives in a chaotic place called Hope Town (graffiti sprayed over the word "hope" on the town sign makes it read "Scum Town") via freight train. Scum Town is ruled with an iron fist by The Drake (Brian Downey) and his sadistic sons Ivan (Nick Bateman) and Slick (Gregory Smith). Just as he arrives, the Hobo witness the execution of The Drake's brother Logan (Robb Wells), who is decapitated in front of a crowd that takes no action.

The Hobo later visits a pawn shop, where he sees a lawnmower costing $49.99. In order to buy it and start a lawnmowing business, the Hobo starts begging for change on a sidewalk, where he sees Ivan and Slick entering a building. He follows them into an arcade with people being tortured for sport and witnesses them harassing a boy named Otis, who owes them money. When a prostitute named Abby (Molly Dunsworth) attempts to stop them, Slick decides to kill her, but is stopped by the Hobo, who knocks him unconscious with a sock full of coins and takes him to the police station in order to turn him in. However, the police chief reveals his corruption and allows Slick to escape. He and Ivan beat the Hobo up and carve the word "scum" into his chest before throwing him into a garbage bin. Abby finds him and takes him to her apartment, where she tends to his wounds and the two become friends. The next day, the Hobo goes to a local cameraman who pays homeless people to inflict harm upon themselves, and, upon completing a series of degrading acts, including eating glass, earns enough money to purchase the lawnmower. At the pawn shop, just as he is about to buy the lawnmower, the Hobo sees a woman and her baby being held hostage by a trio of robbers and grabs a shotgun on the shelf to gun them down. Realizing that Hope Town needs justice, he chooses the shotgun - which also costs $49.99 - over the lawnmower, and goes on a rampage, killing dozens of criminals, including the cameraman and a pedophile dressed as Santa Claus.

The Drake, infuriated by the positive effect that the Hobo's actions are having on the townspeople, instructs Ivan and Slick to get rid of him. After using a flamethrower on a school bus filled with children in order to remind the citizens of Hope Town that they are to be feared, they burst into a television station during a live news broadcast, kill the anchor (played by George Strombolopolous in a cameo role) and demand that all homeless people be killed, leading to the formation of mobs which start attacking vagrants. One of the mobs finds the Hobo when he uses the shotgun to save Abby from a perverted cop intending to rape her. They chase him, but he is able to escape with Abby back to her apartment. However, Otis sees them and calls Slick to inform him of the Hobo's location.

As the Hobo and Abby are preparing to leave Hope Town to start a lawnmowing business somewhere else, they are attacked by Ivan and Slick, who seriously wounds Abby before the Hobo is able to force Ivan to flee by threatening to shoot his brother. Once Ivan is gone, the Hobo kills Slick by shooting his tiny penis off. The Drake hears of this and calls Rip and Grinder (Nick Bateman and Peter Simas), a duo of armour-clad demons known as 'The Plague', to take the Hobo down. The Hobo takes Abby to a hospital, where he is ambushed by The Plague, captured, and taken to The Drake, who intends to execute him in front of the townspeople in order to set an example. Meanwhile, Abby, having recovered, takes the Hobo's shotgun to the pawn shop where she modifies it and also weaponizes the lawnmower. She then rallies together a crowd of angry people and leads them to take Drake down once and for all.

In an alley, Abby confronts Drake, Ivan and the Plague. She threatens to kill Ivan with the weaponized lawn mower, but Drake kills him first, deeming him expendable. In the ensuing fight, Abby releases the Hobo and gives his shotgun back to him. She also kills Grinder before The Drake cuts her hand off with the lawnmower. She, however, stabs him repeatedly with her exposed arm bone. Rip tells Abby that she must replace Grinder, but the Hobo refuses to allow her to do it, and The Plague departs. The Hobo prepares to finish off The Drake, who was trying to crawl away to safety, when the corrupt police arrive. The townspeople decide to take a stand between the Hobo and the police, but the Hobo refuses to have them sacrifice themselves for him and shoots The Drake in the head. The police open fire, killing the Hobo, and are killed by the townspeople in retaliation. The film then ends with a close up shot of the shotgun and then the credits roll.