In the early days of the nation, the west was considered to be the gathering place for every law breaker who was evading the police - in fact there were whole cities made up of fugitive criminals. Bad men rode the plains and committed untold havoc among the early pioneer settlers. Life was rugged, and only the strongest were able to survive. Today's story opens on a lonely road, winding through the flat lands of a western state, along which a young couple are driving toward their new home...