It is the early 1920s in the United States-the time of Prohibition. A nationwide constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation of alcoholic beverages is in effect. Brothers Don Lane and Rick Lane are professional rum-runners and bootleggers: they smuggle and transport alcoholic beverages by sea and land to supply and sell booze-whiskey, gin, brandy, wine, beer, rum, and moonshine-to speakeasies. The money is good, but the job is dangerous. Don, the elder of the two
