The Reverend Jonas Faulkner, pastor of the First Claremont Presbyterian Church in Texas, is a man with a secret: in his younger days he was a notorious gunman, involved in a crime which resulted in the deaths of several children. So when six young girls, travelling to an orphanage in Claremont, are seized by a Kiowa raiding party, Pastor Faulkner knows he must act in atonement for his past sins. For the elderly clergyman is still a force to be reckoned with...