Jason Walton faces one of life's most difficult lessons when he learns that his close friend is suffering from a terminal illness and has only a year to live.
Jason loses his musical scholarship because of the school's lack of money and takes a job playing music at a local roadhouse to pay his tuition. At the same time he helps a famous musician (MERLE HAGGARD) overcome the loss of his son.
Collecting a $30,000 Mexican reward becomes a matter of life or death for two bounty hunters.
The identity of a criminal is confused with that of a deputy marshal when a Quaker party rescues the pair from a do-or-die fight.