When a young girl is accused of murder for shooting her parents��� killers her gunslinger grandfather must come out of retirement to rescue her from a hanging.

It���s Josephine���s 12th birthday and she and her farmer parents go into a small Western town for a treat. But her parents are murdered by a group of carousing cowboys including the son of a rich local resident.

When the son shows up at the sheriff���s office the next day to explain away the circumstances Josephine takes the sheriff���s gun and shoots the son dead. As a result his rich father insists she hang?especially when he finds out she���s kin to a famous retired gunfighter Ethan Fuller.

Ethan Fuller shows up in town to break Josephine out of town and take her someplace safe but they���re pursued relentlessly by possies and hired gunmen and Ethan has to make a last stand and answer for his past crimes in order to save his only remaining family.