Jason Benning was a lost soul after four years of hard fighting for the union. On a lonely road in Missouri after six months of wondering around he meets Gabe Owens that changes his outlook on life and get him started to his dead friend John's ranch that he had promised to help his wife and daughter keep the horse ranch. When they arrive they meet Emily and daughter Lilly Ann. Sam Johnson is trying to get the ranch by any means possible but Jason and Gabe are there to stop it. This is a Christmas story of a different sort of a true saga of the old west.