While out one day looking for moonshine stills to smash, secret deputy Tom Steele stumbles upon a young Cherokee man Joseph Eagle Feather, who has been beaten and left for dead by men who have kidnapped his wife Mary White Dove. Tom convinces Sheriff Dez Lake to allow him to go with Joseph to rescue his wife, who is being taken to New Mexico to be sold to Comancheros.
Tom’s aim is to rescue Mary and arrest the men, but Joseph wants to make them pay for what they did with their lives. As the two men dog the kidnapper’s trail across northwest Texas, they undergo changes that neither expected.