Ellen an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Shortly after her arrival a local preacher Cort is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. The pot is a huge sum of money and the only rule: that you follow the rules of the man that set up the contest Herod. Herod is also the owner leader and "ruler" of the town. Seems he`s arranged this little gun-show-off so that the preacher (who use to be an outlaw and rode with Herod) will have to fight again. Cort refuses to ever use a gun to kill again and Herod acknowledging Cort as one of the best is determined to alter this line of thinking ... even if it gets someone killed