The family man farmer John Rollins is worried with his financial situation: the absence of irrigation and the crows are currently destroying his crop of corn. The bank is closing of his mortgage. He does not need credit to repair the water pump or to purchase seeds. And also his marriage is in crisis and his wife Mary is giving too much attention. He even finds a creepy scarecrow, when John accidentally discovers a hidden compartment at the barn but his son Michael leaves him claim to destroy it. Yet, he is visited by his neighbor Jude Weatherby , gives a half beer into the abstemious John and persuading him to put the scarecrow from the cornfield. Out of the gloomy, John's lifetime changes: the crows die. The pump works again irrigating the land. And the banker responsible for the closing dies and has an accident. He feels that his land is owned by something bad that is threatening his family.