Set against the stark beauty of the American heartland, The Roughneck is a gripping revenge thriller. When young oil rig worker Chris Davis is brutally assaulted at a remote rest stop, he turns to the last person he ever expected—his estranged father Ray, a hardened ex-con. Escaping house arrest, Ray joins Chris on a violent backroad journey into a corrupt small town, where buried secrets and blood ties drive them toward a brutal reckoning.