Travelling country singer Buck Bonham tries to balance life on the road in search of musical fame with his responsibilities to his wife and son; country superstar Dusty Chandler leaves behind the glitz and glamor of his life and falls in love with a country girl only to have their relationship complicated by his past; after her Eastern family ostracizes her over an illegitimate child, a young woman travels to the West but finds she must assume the identity of a man to survive as a single woman; a series of deadly mistakes and bad luck changes the carefree lives of two brothers and their friend in 1954 Georgia, when they are accused of murdering the sheriff's wife.