After falling in with a gang of hoodlums and not quite fifteen years old, Tom Brandt is again in Court after his third arrest. Tom's father, Bob Brandt makes the decision to get him out of the big city and sends him to his uncle's horse and cattle ranch in Big Springs, Colorado. There Tom finds an outlaw stallion and feels a kinship with the horse. The question is whether or not the relationship between this troubled teenager from New York City and the rogue horse can save them both.