本片是导演扬•特洛尔1971年的名作《大移民》的续篇，两部电影均改编自Vilhelm Moberg的The Emigrants系列小说。本片取材此系列的后两部小说，The Settlers 和The Last Letter Home，讲述一批瑞典移民在19世纪中期的明尼苏达州建造家园的故事

　　Bill Kiowa (Montgomery Ford) is released after a five-year prison term for a crime he did not commit. The bandit El Fego (Tatsuya Nakadai), who did the actual crime, also killed Kiowa's young Native American wife. Once free, Kiowa raises a gang to go after the man who framed him. An Italian western in the A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS mold with a better than average cast, which includes Bud Spencer in the debut of his heavy-handed character (later made famous in the TRINITY series) and the outstanding Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, famous for his role in Akira Kurosawa's KAGEMUSHA. Written by horror-meister Dario Argento and presented here in the English-language version (which, considering it was filmed MOS with an international cast, is nearly as "original dialogue" as its Italian-language counterpart).

　　故事发生在1946年。内战过后，西班牙中心地带的某个地方只剩下绝望，贫穷和流犯。有一个男孩不断逃亡，并在沟渠中找到了藏身之处。搜查队离开后，他面对的是一个充满危险和干旱的平原。万幸的是，他在穿越平原的路上遇到了一个牧羊人，两人最终选择同行。一路上，他们必须应对饥饿和缺水，并逃避由工头派来寻找男孩的人。牧羊人成为男孩的导师：他解释了他的职业和他对生活的理解。随着时间的流逝，牧羊人也知晓了男孩想要逃避的究竟是怎样的恐惧。

　　In San Francisco, the sportsman Kay Hoog tells to the members of a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map from a Harvard's missing professor telling about a treasure of an Inca lost civilization still alive. He decides to go to Peru to seek the gold. However, members of the secret criminal organization "The Spiders" leaded by Lio Sha break in Kay's mansion during the night and steal the map. Kay Hoog travels to Peru, where he retrieves his map and a document about the Diamond Ship from The Spiders. Later he saves the Priestess of the Sun Naela and brings her to San Francisco. However, The Spiders kill Naela and Kay Hoog promises revenge for the death of his love

　　影片讲述了一名孤独的骑士来到了阿尔卑斯高处的一座小镇，这里没有人认识他，也没有人知道他来此地的目的。然而，小镇的所有人都希望这位陌生人赶紧离开。