Minnesota, 1915. Glendon Hale is a wanted man, a train robber who's been in hiding for years. As the modern age marches swiftly forward, Glendon decides to travel back to his past and find the wife he abandoned long ago. On a misty river one morning, he meets Monte Becket, a failing author.

A road trip to end all road trips, it is an elegiac tribute to the great storytelling traditions of the old West and a classic work of modern American fiction.