1866 - the old west was wild and untamed. Eli Cooper grew up at such a time in western Kansas. At the age of six he watches in horror as his father is gunned down right in front of him and he vows to take revenge on the killers. It's a journey of the hunter in pursuit of the hunted, as well as a passage from youth to manhood for an unwitting gunslinger, trapped between longing and certainty, with an outcome he never saw coming.