A noted concert pianist in her early forties, totally obsessed with her music, retreats to a small town to be alone and to write a concerto, but there falls for a talented teenage musician and becomes consumed in an affair with him.

Lost and alone, a young Indian boy travels through the wilds of the Old West. He finds shelter with a widowed horse trainer, who names him Frankie and teaches the outcast the tricks of the trade.

Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting marshal and his two trigger-happy deputies.

A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus of a struggle between her family and the group.