Jim Hooper's peaceful life in his 'hideaway' overlooking the Rio Grande is shattered when Fernandez Diaz's brother is killed and the Mexican bandit, by kidnapping Jim's wife, forcing him to hunt the killers. Jim finds himself on the trail of three men who had sworn to kill him for arresting them for a bank robbery three years ago when he was Sheriff of Rosewell County. But Jim's task is only part completed when he catches up with them for now, to save his wife, he must deliver them alive to Diaz.
