 In an interview, Bozzetto claimed to have invented the Spaghetti Western genre with this film, an achievement usually attributed to Sergio Leone with his "A Fistful of Dollars" which was released the year before, but whose development started later and was faster than the traditionally animated "West and Soda".The plot of the film follows the traditional stranger arriving in a small western town.The stranger finds a pretty woman holding out from selling her uniquely green land to the local big shot, who is harassing her in hope of seducing her/buying her land.