The bandits Sunshine and Kid flee to the ghost town of Deadlock in the Mexican Sierra after a bank robbery. The only residents are Charles Dump and his daughter Jessy. Dump tries to hunt down the bandits' prey ... Acoustically and visually captivating, dramaturgically consistent right to the end, this film will be remembered forever. "Deadlock" means a door lock that can only be opened from one side. The location of the film is such a trap from which there is no escape. According to classic dramaturgy, the wallet of the demolished gangsters moves from one to the other, supported by the sheer Beckettian inability of the gallows to kill the respective owner. Mario Adorf as a touching clumsy unlucky man, Anthony Dawson as an aging killer and Marquard Bohm, "Schwabing's understatement monster", as an injured gangster, sneak up to the psychedelic soundtrack of the avant-garde rock band Can for prey, like the cats for the hot porridge.