A few years after the Civil War, Lou Hollister returns to Texas, bearing the cruel scars of an enemy prison stockade. Once home, he thinks he can settle and cast off a beleaguered past. Instead, he finds a family without hope, and a ranch manipulated by Tusk Tollinger, the corrupt sheriff of Cottonwood County. Lou fights to regain his ranch, and when a great snowstorm surges in from the Sacramento Mountains, he must confront his tormentors from the past. Can he now wreak his final, bloody revenge?