Clint Eastwood directs, produces and stars in this Western. A community of gold mining prospectors comes under attack from a gang of marauders who are after the prospectors´ land. Young Megan Wheeler (Sydney Penny) prays for help, which consequently arrives in the form of the Preacher (Eastwood), a grim, silent stranger. The Preacher takes up the community´s cause, and sets out to repel the invaders. The cast also includes Michael Moriarty, Christopher Penn and Richard Dysart.