 Renegade Luke has been living an easy life so far, travelling through the southwest with his horse Joe, making money by running small-time scams. All this comes to an end when he encounters Moose, an imprisoned convict with a young son. Moose makes Luke an offer: move into his property and become the legal guardian of his son, and in return he won t get his friends to make legal trouble for Luke. Things don t go smoothly for the drifter and the boy at first, but gradually they come to settle into their new situation.