James Devlin, un peligroso asesino, es condenado a la horca por un delito del que es acusado injustamente. El día de la ejecución algo falla y, pese a ser dado por muerto, sobrevive. En su huída hacia una nueva vida decide ayudar a proteger el rancho de una joven viuda frente al acoso de un rico minero.
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town. At first warm and welcoming, the townspeople become more and more solicitous of John and insistent that he stay on as their minister, against the wishes of Lorna, who goes unheeded and slowly becomes deathly ill. Will John realize the danger before it is too late?
