After her father is savagely assaulted at the family lumberyard, Paula Bacon returns home to Kaufman, Texas and takes on a local equine slaughter plant that brutalizes, not just horses but Boggy Bottom, a small black neighborhood next door. She decides to run for Mayor and wins, joining forces with a local atheist and a resident who lives behind the plant. Against huge odds, they shut it down, exposing decades of good ol' boy corruption and a trail of tainted horse blood running from their small East Texas prairie town, through the state capital in Austin, and all the way to Capitol Hill. The Judas Horse is based on the true story appearing on Texas Mayor Paula Bacon Kicks Some Tail.