Hewey Calloway is a 38-year-old cowboy used to working where and when he wants, but after spending some time on his brother's farm in Texas in 1906, Calloway must decide between the life he has always known and the way of the future.
Twelve-year-old Joey Shipman becomes the target of a murder plot when his father dies and leaves him the family farm, thwarting the plans of his cold-hearted stepmother.