A sheriff travels to Mexico to capture a fugitive killer and bring him to justice. As they make the dangerous journey back through Apache territory, the prisoner plays on the lawman's doubts in the hope of making his escape, but an encounter with an orphaned child changes both men. Western, starring Anthony Quinn and William Conrad.

A troubled sheriff, a failure at everything in his life, tries to redeem himself by extraditing a popular gunfighter from Mexico to stand trial for murder.