Sheriff Pete Handy looked in the store window and felt sick to his stomach. The townspeople had a Cheyenne brave captive and were killing him. Handy knew it was too late to save the Indian, but he must try and save the settlers in town and the Indians of the Cheyenne tribes before a war broke out between the two opposing sides. Handy knew what an impossible spot he was in, a white man with a Cheyenne wife and a son. As he stood alone in a cross-fire of hate and violence he knew he would die if he made one wrong move--and all the rest of the people would follow.