Ralph Nelson

A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife abandons her husband in order to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.

A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.