Struggling to make sense of a world wrought with the chaos of a mentally ill mother and emotionally absent father, Grant Golliher turns to mules and horses for companionship. This is a gravitation that will shape the course of his life to the core of his very being. Grant leaves home at a young age to pursue the life of a cowboy. He works his way around the West finding work where he can get it, but always with the horses he loves. From Wyoming pack strings to ranch hand in Nevada and polo horse trainer in California, his life is full of mishaps and adventure. Grant's life follows the path the horses take him. As he learns to develop his training techniques for teaching troubled horses he discovers that they are teaching him in return.