As a young man, Mexican American Donato Perry comes to live with his great great-grandfather, Don Tomas, on his desert cattle ranch in Baja, Mexico. It is there that he learns to become a seasoned cowboy and seeks to capture a wild azulejo horse, the only horse, it is said, of its kind. But when Donato becomes heir to a precious treasure, he finds himself caught in the curse that must finally be played out and a love that must be won.