Set on a frontier trail into a fervent mountain settlement, the narrative follows a gallery of vividly nicknamed figures — including a prideful young man termed the Little Man of Sorrows, a fierce defender called the Lion of the Lord, and a Wild Ram of the mountains — whose lives interweave through crime, fanaticism, and acts of courage. The plot traces conversions, apostasies, and moral reckonings within a tightly knit religious community, showing how personal pride, love, vengeance, and mercy drive confrontations, missions, a Gentile incursion, and final acts of repentance and unexpected forgiveness.