Pandemonium erupts when a bank robbery and murder turns a freed slave into an amateur sleuth in an attempt to recover his lost savings. He finds himself joining a circus of cons and clowns out to apprehend the robbers whose elaborate plan to launder stolen bank notes into gold include a train robbery in Mexico. Bounty hunters, Pinkerton detectives, bandits, a US Marshal, the former slave and the Mexican Army all chase the outlaws over a thousand miles...