The Runaway 2000 In a Dixie small town, the late sheriff was quite content to preside over a truly segregated community There the rich brothers, Harlan and Mason Davis, are lords His successor, Word War II veteran Frank Richards, has a more modern view on justice and equality, which doesnt help his social acceptance anywhere He also has doubts about the mysterious masked peg leg to whom all murders where ascribed Harlan is shot after an african american boy threats him with a gun to stop his old fashioned liberalities Frank and the prosecutors retired dad, agree to act as defense council, investigate, cued by the boys Caucasian playmate, Luke Winter, and turn both case and town around