In a toung-in-cheek blaxploitation-style speghetti western — including music styles from both genres, — director Quentin Tarantino puts a former slave and a German bounty hunter together as unlikely allies in the battle against a tyrannical plantation owner.

Two years before the Civil War, fugitive hunter Dr. King Schultz is determined to capture the outlaw Brittle brothers dead or alive. He frees the slave Django — the only man to have seen the Brittle brothers. Django seeks to rescue his beloved wife Broomhilda, who was sold to another plantation. Once Django has aided Dr. Schultz in coralling the Brittle brothers, the two team up to capture some of the most wanted men in the South. Meanwhile, Django never loses sight of his mission to free Broomhilda  — his German speaking bride. The two men search the south one plantation at a time. Upon arriving at Calvin Candie’s nefarious plantation — Candiland — Django and Dr. Schultz locate Broomhilda and plot to buy her from Candie as a supposed “treat for Schultz.” But Candie’s evil house slave Stephen sees the electric current between the husband and wife, and informs his master of the scam they are trying to put over on Candie. Django and Dr. Schultz will have to come out with pistols blazing if they ever hope to free Broomhilda from Candyland and the clutches of its vile proprietor.