A gunman without a gun wakes up in Death Valley. With no recollection of how he got there or even his own name. He's a dead man walking, until he stumbles upon the homestead of a widow and her young son, who nurse him back to health. In the desert good deeds come at a cost. The amnesiac is being trailed by hard men who want answers he doesn't have. First a group of gunslingers then a troop of soldiers threaten the innocent family. Their only hope of rescue is the very man who got them in this predicament.