"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.
The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world.
Shane works for the Starett family, a young widow, her son, and her aging father-in-law, protecting them against the anti-sodbuster rancher Ryker and other perils plaguing the Old West.