Jeff Havens, a young civil war soldier, returns to his home in the west, expecting to be reunited with Anne, the girl he has loved since childhood. After experiencing the horrors of war he just
wants to resume his life as if he had never left.
Things have changed on the home front. Anne is engaged to marry another man. Having no family except his grandfather and an old and trusted friend, Amado Lopez, the man who raised him, Jeff
leaves again.