The Locusts 1997 In the 50s, the drifter Clay Hewitt arrives in a small town in the countryside of Kansas and befriends the locals Kitty, Earl and his girlfriend Patsy after punching their friend Joel Carter in a bar Clay asks for a job to raise money to go to California, and Earl drives him to the ranch of the widow Delilah Ashford Potts to work with him in the slaughterhouse Mrs Potts is an alcoholic and promiscuous woman and hires Clay and let him stay in the barn When Clay meets her son Joseph Flyboy Potts, he learns that he has just returned from a mental institution after eight years and he does not speak a word to anybody Further, his only friend is a bull called Jim that belonged to his father Clay falls in love with Kitty and gets close to Flyboy that becomes his friend and slowly changes his behavior When Clays decides to leave the town, he discloses a dark secret to Kitty Meanwhile Flyboys change of attitude unleashes a series of evil events and revelations from Mrs Potts