The narrative of Henry McBride, a downandout cowboy having a painful past he can't drink away. Living to move, he eventually ends up working the place an older cowboy wishes to be: A dude ranch. It is here he meets with the owner, Jessie King, a rancher with a love for horses. McBride's selfdiscovery begins if she introduces him to a brand new method of training a horse whose ago and temperament mirror his own , a troubled mustang.