A wounded man, "Vanner" (played by Lew Ayres), finds himself at a barn where he encounters a priest. The clergyman (Victory Jory) proposes he might be better off inside and then listens to his lengthy explanation. Previously, “Vanner” had been working in the oilfields of Mexico when he arrested someone he thought was involved in a robbery of payroll funds. Although not at fault for what happened afterward—the man die…