Kirk Douglas plays Jim Fallon a hard-nosed lumberjack intent on making his fortune from California's famous giant redwood trees. The territory he has designs on though is inhabited by a religious colony that beg him not to strip their land of the mighty sequoias. Initially undeterred he ignores their pleas but soon discovers that there are others even more ruthless than himself who also want to oust the settlers. With violent confrontation inevitable Fallon slowly comes to question his own unscrupulous nature and finally makes an unexpected alliance.
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A religious settlement is under threat from unscrupulous businessmen who want to get rid of the settlers and then strip the land of sequoias thereby destroying the environment. Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) is one of these men but his plans involve leaving the settlers in peace. With a violent confrontation between the two sides on the cards, Fallon starts to reassess his own behaviour and begins to wonder whether he is on the right side.
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