After Bill (Richard Gere) fights with and kills a foreman, he takes his lover, Abby (Brooke Adams), and his sister, Linda (Linda Manz), leave the city on a train bound for Texas, where they start working in wheat fields for a farmer (Sam Shepard). The farmer believes Abby is also Bill’s sister and eventually marries her. The foreman (Robert J. Wilke) is suspicious of the trio. Bill supports the marriage at first because it is a scheme on his part; the farmer will die soon and then Bill and the women can benefit. Later, Bill is unhappy about the marriage. The farmer catches on eventually and tries to get revenge, but Bill kills him, then flees along with Abby and Linda. They camp out in the woods but Bill is killed by police. Later, as World War I is in progress, Abby gets on a train with some soldiers, while Linda gets herself a man.