When "Sentence" Sykes finally sets his boots back on the ground of his home hills after a long time, young Jim Starret immediately recognizes in him the Western legend that could have come straight from the magazines he learned to read with. But his new hero is not there when the feared Clayton gang shoots his mother right before his eyes. From that moment on, Jim has only one goal: to join Sykes and take up the chase. He has already paid the blood price. What he does not yet know is that it is his own demons that make a legend of the Wild West...