With her teen daughter Ruby, Kate Ryan moves to the secluded village of Zamora to have a quiet life alongside her poor neighbours, the Spanish farmers of northern New Mexico. However, when Kate invites the wrong drifter home, the delicate peace of her domain shatters. Troy is the bad smell that refuses to go away. Kate bribes him into leaving with a few hundred dollars and a ride to Santa Fe. In town, Troy hustles his way into another woman's life and returns to Zamora to prove he's not the man Kate thinks he is. He's much worse.