Cinco amigos sureños vuelven a casa después de la guerra en 1865, y encuentran que soldados yanquis están ayudando a un barón del ferrocarril a hacerse con las tierras de sus vecinos.
Phil, a teenager, disappears and his friend Danny talks to people in town in an attempt to locate him. Danny learns that Phil was under enormous stress from his parents, football coach and teachers.
Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The move is sudden and is complicated by the fact that Porter’s wife and eight children are all very comfortable in the large, successful church they have been serving in Dallas.
