Jack Finch rides out to find the man who killed his young wife. Unknown to him, Dawson Cayne, the man who committed the senseless murder, was working for a revengeful bitter old man, and that included taking out Jack. While recovering from a gunshot wound in a border sanatorium, Connie Kettle makes an appearance, and Jack quickly realizes there is more to his life than trailing a killer. But Cayne wants to prolong the torment, attempting to make Jack pay a dreadful price for a crime he didn't commit...