Outdoor writer and adventurer Sydney Wilder is comfortable in her cabin in the Ozark Mountains. A tall slender man of indeterminate age and background causes Wilder to change her whole schedule and head for Colorado. Akiela, the mysterious hermit of the Ozarks, visits in the dead of the night and tells Wilder that he has an assignment for her. He asks Wilder to go to Colorado to assist Keith Linn with a dangerous situation brought on by the greed...