Two young children find themselves in charge of a gentle aging circus lion, but when authorities want to take him away, they set out across the wilds of the American Northwest.

Garner stars as a U.S. Camel Corps deserter trying to hide out in the deserts of New Mexico with his young friend, a runaway boy.

Follows the lives of the residents of Centennial, Colorado from its inception in 1795 through its maturity in the present day.