 A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he s saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ( My friends call me Cowpoke ), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there s a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...