An encounter with a rural Maryland family bearing a striking resemblance to him leads Buz to Baltimore where, with the help of a police detective, he searches for the woman who might be his mother.
Tod and Buz protect a Native American girl and her newborn from their employer, who rules the land like a feudal baron. (Robert Duvall as a nasty ranchhand.)
To finance a new Virgin Mary statue for her church, a Sicilian woman tries to sell Oregon land "bequeathed" to her by an American soldier during World War II.
