In 1897, two men battle for control of the hell-fire gold-rush town of Skaguay, Alaska: Soapy Smith, a pimp and con-man at the head of a band of murdering gunsels, and Frank Reid, a one-time Indian fighter and the surveyor who laid out the town. A nun arrives to "cleanse the soiled doves." Fetching, beautiful and alluring, yet ignorant to the ways of a frontier town, she fuels the men's feud as it burns to its fiery finish.