Jennifer is thrilled when she and her brother Russell set out with a wagon train to find their dreams of land ownership out west. However, her sense of adventure fades to weary disenchantment as the lush green of the east gives way to the dry and dusty plains of the west. Although the journey at first is bearable, things change for the worse when one of the two horses needed to pull their wagon steps into a hole left by a burrowing varmint. Abandoned on the desolate prairie, they are rescued by an Indian who provides another horse. They arrive in the only nearby town with renewed hope only to find that the town has a most dreadful secret that threatens their very lives. Jennifer's faith in God is tested severely. Will she stay, or will she take the stagecoach back east where she can rejoin the church fellowship they left behind?