It's 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma. Along with other settlers, they travel to Florence – a town yet to be built – and prepate for business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track.

But the railroad company has other ideas. It wants to buy the land for itself - and when the settlers refuse to sell, the railroad boss swears his trains will never stop in Florence again.

Without the train, there is no way the town can survive. So Cissy, her friends, family, and neighbours resolve to stop that train, come what may – by fair means or foul.