A young woman is booted out of her house by her stepmother and sent off to South Dakota to be the bride of a man she doesn’t know. He’s a would-be gold miner who made his money by robbing people. Now, he’s on the up and up but always fearful that his past will come back to haunt him. As the couple starts their life together they find a purpose to it that benefits their community, but in the end, the man’s past returns to haunt him.