Above the Caprock

A man and a boy, each damaged by loss in different ways, come together by chance on the Texas ranch belonging to beautiful widow Helen Logan. A Kiowa raiding party has wiped out the family of ex-army scout Clint Slater, leaving him hardened and disengaged from others; the boy, known only as Cant, born to a prostitute mother lost in morphine addiction, has fled his degraded life as a whorehouse errand-boy. Helen Logan and her well-watered range are coveted by neighboring cattleman Print Boatwright who commands a crew of rustlers and hired gunmen. When Boatwright recruits a mysterious killer named Santiago to seal his conquest, Slater is forced to act. Cant, longing for the father he has never known, must choose between Slater's principled resolution and the strangely compelling evil of Santiago.