The burden of the past weighs heavily on the teenage Trask twins as bitter revelations tear the family apart.

Adam's dreams of a California ranch are dashed when his wife (Jane Seymour) deserts him and her newborn twins to work in a bordello.

John Steinbeck's generational saga stars Bruce Boxleitner and Timothy Bottoms as Cain-and-Abel brothers and Jane Seymour as the vixen who comes between them.