Three disparate travelers—a disillusioned preacher, an unsuccessful prospector and a larcenous, cynical con man—meet at a decrepit railroad station in the 1870s Southwest United States. The prospector and the preacher were witnesses at the rape and murder trial of the notorious bandit Juan Carrasco. The bandit duped Colonel Wakefield, an aristocratic Southerner, into believing that he knew the location of a lost
Aztec treasure. While the greedy Wakefield was bound to a tree and gagged, Carrasco assaulted his wife Nina. These events led to the stabbing of the husband. Carrasco was tried, convicted and condemned for the crimes. Everyone's account on the witness stand differs dramatically. Carrasco claims that Wakefield was bound with ropes while Nina was assaulted, after which he killed the colonel in a duel. The newlywed wife contends that she had killed her husband because he accused her of luring Carrasco and causing the rape. The dead man's testimony is given through a third witness, an old Indian shaman, who said that neither of those accounts was true. The shaman insists that the colonel used a jeweled dagger to commit suicide after the incident. There was a fourth witness, the prospector, with a completely different view of what took place. The veracity of that account is no more certain than that of the other three. ==Cast==