Sergeant Frank Hardy is an ex-soldier from Her Majesty’s 57th Regiment who is scraping out a living in a small New Zealand settlement by driving a coach and playing rigged card games. But he’s haunted by nightmares of things he’s seen and done in wartime. When he’s asked to find two missing Scandinavian settlers, he refuses – until he catches a glimpse of the cousin of one of the missing men. But while he searches for the bodies and loses his heart, someone from his past returns with revenge in mind, and the body count begins.