Driven out of his job and home and onto a fast path alone, a young man gets lost in an unpublished manuscript telling of heroin busts in 1950's-Texas, written while undercover by the Federal Narcotics Agent himself. As he takes on a life in the shadows, will "Tex Foster" catch up with the modern-day renegade? Or, can an old cowboy's tale rescue the young buck from slipping into a life of drugs and crime?