Iry Paret's done his time -- two years for manslaughter in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal Buddy Riordan. In prison Iry tinkered with a song -- "The Lost Get-Back Boogie" -- that never came out quite right. Now the Riordan family's problems hand him a new kind of trouble with some tragic consequences. And Iry must get the tune right at last or pay a fateful price.
