The vast territories of the western states of North America. The eighties of the last century... For more than ten years the hero of the novel has spent in the saddle, searching for and capturing criminals hiding from the law. He is quite happy with this life, and he does not intend to change it. There is no woman, he believes, who could tie him to her. And if so, then why not promise an old friend to take his daughter through almost deserted and wild places and deliver her to a new place of residence safe and sound? And so the two set off on a journey, so different, unlike each other. At the end of this path they realize that they cannot part...