Defeated and bitter, Matt Culhane returns home to Texas to find his land occupied by Yankees. His family has taken refuge in San Antonio. He learns that his younger brother has joined a renegade militia unit. Matt searches for his brother, becomes involved with a freed slave couple and the daughter of one of the Yankees who bought his land. How can a man who has been brought up to respect the law, fought a war to preserve a way of life, lost everything he holds dear, regain the honor he prizes so highly?
Tralee, Ireland. September 1948.
An arrogant, and highly agitated, priest arrives home after 40 years.
Days later he's dead. Suicide? Or did his past catch up with him?
