After three desperadoes ride into the town of Monkford and hold a congregation at gunpoint, a shootout ensues. With the Minister's wife dead and one of the criminals wounded, they make their escape to the town of Fiveways in search of a doctor. A posse gathers and sets out into the Territory to bring the criminals to justice. Meanwhile in Monkford, the minister Gene Sherrin is recovering from the terrible tragedy... and proves to be a man at war with himself. In a game of survival of the fittest, who will be the last man standing?