In this bleak and unusual Western, Randolph Scott stars as Burt Allison, a man who obsessively rides from town to town, determined to find and seek revenge on Tate Kimbrough (Carroll), the man he believes drove his wife to suicide. When Allison finally rides into the right town he finds Kimbrough in the middle of his wedding to Lucy (Steele), but finds little support for his cause from the townsfolk or the corrupt sheriff.