Ray had the notion he could wipe out his sins and get to heaven if he kept his promise to a dying man. All he had to do was get a truckload of gold past the Germans in 1936 Mexico, sell it, and get the money back to Texas and an anxious widow. Should have been simple enough, but he made some mistakes: he crossed the local bad guys, tried to beat the desert on foot, and got a tough cop mad at him. But his biggest slip was in trusting the wrong man, which just might get him to heaven a lot sooner than he figured.