Robbing the Dead

A Western following the story of a law officer assigned to look after a man he despises. It is 1862 when Henry Heath (John Freeman), a law man from Salt Lake City, finds himself in charge of Jean Baptiste (David Stevens), a man convicted of grave robbing. Heath is unhappy with the responsibility, repelled by the crimes committed by Baptiste, but an unusual relationship gradually develops between the pair. Posted to a remote island where Heath is Baptiste's only defence against a hostile community, the law officer begins to develop a new perspective on Christian ideas of forgiveness and tolerance...