1850: A mountainman finds twelve year old Annie Dugan after outlaws have killed her Ma and Pa. Wolf Johnson has heard about the outlaw gang known as The Brothers and figured they did not intend to leave the girl alive. When the outlaws return they find the girl gone. They track the girl and her rescuer to kill the girl before she can out a rope around their necks. Wolf figures a bullet is better than a rope. But can an ageing mountainman and a young girl survive against three vicious killers?