In this intense TV drama, Simon Zuniga (Burt Reynolds) is a Papago Native American who is charged with murdering his brother and is forced to serve a long prison sentence. However, Zuniga is an innocent man, and was actually framed for the crime. When he is finally released, he pledges to find the actual criminal, setting out on a desperate, conflict-ridden quest to settle the score -- aided, along the way, by his love interest, Carroll Rennard (Inger Stevens).