Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid have grown tired of their adrenaline-packed lifestyle. Now owners of the Bitter Creek Ranch, they have swapped robbing banks and trains for a slower pace of life...or so they think. When their friends, sisters Rosa and Louisa Jordan, come to stay on the ranch, trouble quickly follows in the form of their stepbrother Abe Gannon. The violent outlaw has grown tired of living in the shadow of Butch and Sundance's success in the outlaw business, and wants to show them a lesson. Hot on his heels, and also after vengeance against the infamous duo, is US Marshal Joe Altham who wants to see them hanged. Meanwhile, Butch and Sundance's friend, Governor Jacob Hurley, is desperately fighting against the clock to obtain a pardon for them. When Latham and his deputies make an unwelcome visit to Bitter Creek Ranch, everything culminates in a final showdown.