1921 and black gold has been discovered and the oil boom is on. Derricks grow where once forests stood.
Reverend Joel Denver has seen the light. His wicked past is left behind him or so he thinks. Then he learns his estranged father is calling to him and he determines to visit. Returning to the small town he left behind, along with his many sinful misdeeds, he finds that things have changed radically. Oil has been found and the vast fields are under the control of one wealthy and despotic man who wants to take the family farmland. Joel resolves not to give it up without a fight but it calls for him to revive the person he once was in his wayward and violent past.