Avoided by everyone for being half Native-American the reclusive horse breeder Chino Valdez takes great pride in training his beautiful free-roaming mustangs. Then unexpectedly the young teenage runaway Jamie Wagner turns up at his door in search of food shelter and work and just like that an almost father/son relationship commences. However the death of a young filly will be the harbinger of trouble as the ruthless local cattle baron Maral is bent on eradicating the menace of the unpredictable man. Can Chino keep his horses his land and the woman he loves?