A ripping, wild-west melodrama of lust, greed, gold, railroads, madmen, dynamite, prostitution—and the love of a good woman with a complicated past for a man convinced that all women are bad. Joanne is a beautiful woman who travels alone by rail on a mysterious, desperate mission. John Aldous is a novelist with a mistrust of women who is overcome by the compulsion to save her from one dangerous mishap after another and to aid her in her quest. Together they risk their own lives to find true love, gold, and the truth about her past.