The coming of age tale of Johnny Desmond, a teenager torn between the preacher he has respected all his life and an outlaw whom he has grown to idolize. When trouble with the Ku Klux Klan breaks out in the small Oklahoma town they live in, choices must be made and sides taken. Then there is also the mystery of who is the legendary gunfighter the outlaw is searching for? A beautifully written western in the time honored tradition of "Shane".