In the loneliness of the small, western town of Iron Spur in the 1870s, Carla Brandon and Blake Devlin find comfort in one another. Teenagers at the time, they suffer more than the usual pangs and common disruptions of their attraction. Blake runs off and in time Carla searches for him. They find one another and their passion rekindles, but being young and on their own in a section of the country and at a time where nothing comes easily, fate tosses them back and forth until they meet for their final encounter, when their passions collide and survival balances on a knife's edge.