Movie Story : On the American frontier, three women have been broken by the brutal hardships of pioneer life, and their minds have failed them. Mary Bee Cuddy, a devout and self-reliant woman, takes on the task of carrying them east to Iowa, where a minister and his wife have agreed to care for them. She recruits George Briggs, a rough drifter, to help her make the wagon journey. Together they must cross the Nebraska Territory, a land of haunting beauty and constant danger.