Disillusioned with police work and with life in general, Karl Myers heads west in 1955 in search of his wife, Laura Benton, who was last reported to be living in Port Townsend, Washington. In North Dakota during the trip west, serendipity deposits Myers in the midst of a prison break, and he captures an escapee named Mato-Sa; fate also reunites Myers with Reginald Rhodes, a marine brother he first met in 1942 at Montford Point, where Myers was a D.I...