A troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man.

A loud ping over the intercom awoke Huber from his fitful siesta. The fasten seat belt sign illuminated overhead. Still half asleep Huber buckled himself in. He scanned the rows ahead and behind him before a sickening realization hit him. Everyone was gone. The plane was empty.

Clyde Barr, the drifter with lethal skills, is alone again, wandering the highways of the American West in search of something to believe in. As summer turns to autumn, he trades his car for a horse and heads for the mountains, planning to clear his head and regain his edge with some hunting. But when he runs across an elderly sick man-- a Ute Indian from a nearby reservation-- Clyde's dream of solitude is quickly dashed. On the reservation, Clyde...