Aged fourteen, Jake Chalmers witnessed his parents' murder by drunken cowboys. Now he's a young man -- with a gun for protection ... On the run after killing, in self-defence, Jake arrives in Sweetwater. But he's unable to maintain a low profile when he becomes embroiled in a feud between the businessman Jordan Carter, and sheriff Luke Gardner. Then one of Carter's men murders Luke, and Jake must choose between the law of the land and the law of the gun ...