It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers -- just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break: a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone system -- and not a penny for repairs. And while liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger. What he finds upends his sense of justice.