The border that connects Mexico with the United States in 1911, when thanks to the creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) an end to a very violent era in which territorial conflicts had given rise to small civil wars, and where the bandits had taken advantage of any loophole to roam freely, looting, killing and wreaking chaos. One of these outlaws is our protagonist, John Marston, who, distant and resentful of everything he experienced, only wants to live in peace with his wife Abigail and his teenage son Jack. Everything goes wrong when two secret government agents (Edgar Ross and Archer Fordham) capture him, and at the same time hold his family to force him to collaborate with justice. Under this extortion he must help arrest or hunt down three of his former bandmates, John has no choice but to accept if he wants to see his family again.
