| Summary: |
"On the vast northern plains in the 1880's, two young people struggle to find their destinies as the men who rule that savage world fight a life-and-death battle against nature and each other. An imperious cattle baron called the Captain has sought refuge from his shadowy past in a remote basin, where he reigns with his wife, a once-proud woman half-mad from isolation. Their dominion is threatened by the arrival of a down-at-the-heels drover named Slater, who knows the Captain's shameful secret. Slater's cattle outfit includes his rebellious foster son Rory, who is eager to prove himself worthy of membership in that brutal all-male society. He sets his sights on the Captain's beautiful, stronog-willed daughter Elena, who seems determined to hate him, just as an all-out range war breaks out between the two outfits, triggering a reign of violence and terror from which no one on either side will emerge unscathed."-- |
