At the onset of the Civil War, seven young Texans hope to join up with General Hood’s Confederate forces. They end up at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, where their courage is tested beyond their wildest expectations.

When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by borrowing some water from a large and potentially destructive site, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that erupts into a humorous culture clash.

Though his eccentric traits bewilder his colleagues Natalie Teeger, Captain Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Disher, Monk’s attention to detail keeps crime—and grime—off the streets.