1867. After the thirteen-year-old son of the Sheriff kills the criminal who shot his father in a shootout, the boy is sentenced to death by hanging. As a result of the intervention of the Governor of the state, the death penalty is replaced by twenty years in a penal colony without the possibility of parole. And here is released from prison Elijah is returning in native city. Will he be able to forgive the people who broke his life, or brutally take revenge on the offenders?