 After a series of vicious crimes by a renegade group of cowboys, led by "Red Jack" Stilwell (Scott Wilson), a legendary tracker, Noble Adams (Kris Kristofferson) is pulled out of retirement to capture Stilwell, dead or alive. Reluctantly, needing more men, he allows his son, Tom (Mark Moses) to tag along, revealing to Tom a whole brutal side of ruthlessness Noble thought he left behind.