Tarp Gentry is an Arizona cattle rancher and part-time riverboat deckhand. He'salso a drunk and a womanizer with noconscience. Tarp is unprepared for a seriesof circumstances that tug on every fiberof his being to change who he is or lose thethe one thing that is still preciousto him - his daughter, Lizzy. The trail leads to a conniving tyrant who is murdering his way to power andmoney along the Colorado River.