Brody comes to Brentwood Falls in Arizona. Territory to keep a pledge made at his mother's deathbed: to avenge the wrong done to her years earlier. Though wealthy, he prefers a life of manual labour, and accepts employment shoeing horses in the town smithy. Before long Brody has made enemies of his mother's nemesis, rancher Dan Slaydon, and his wastrel son. He also faces the enigmatic outlaw known only as Ishmael, whose motives are as mysterious as his true identity...
