Jim Williams is a skilled saddle bronc rider in the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association, a man who knows how to score high and win money. After four years in the U.S. Marines, too much of it spent in Afghanistan, he is very content with his life following the PRCA circuit - until he rides Slash a mean-minded gray horse that ends up killing himself at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo, and nearly taking Williams with him into the great beyond...