In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are despatched to New Mexic
o to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Lat
our spreads his faith the only way he knows - gently, although he must contend w
ith the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests,
and his own loneliness. Over nearly forty years, they leave converts and enemie
s, crosses and occasionally ecstasy in their wake.
