The film is a rural melodrama starring Frank Mayo, Sylvia Breamer, and Philo McCullough.

A Universal Pictures production, it is one of the Carl Laemmle-endorsed “The Laemmle Nine,” nine films released from Christmas 1922 to February 19, 1923.

He is wanted to give testimony in a case involving the theft of his sheep, but before he learns this, he makes a confession regarding the murder of his half-brother Will the previous night.

The jury learns the myriad ways his brother has wronged him over the last several years, motivated out of a mutual affection for a woman named Mary.

As he finishes his testimony before the grand jury, much to the surprise of the members, sheriff brings the prisoner in the sheep-stealing case, who is Will.