It is 5.45 am March 6th, 1940 and Pete Salverson owner of the roadside café in West Texas is opening for business. As he sweeps up in the kitchen he hears a sound outside the back door and discovers a beat up and hungry dog there with a strange kind of leash on it like a harness the kind a blind mans dog might wear. When the sheriff turns up he remembers that he'd had a missing persons bulletin on a blind man three days ago. The sheriff had a hunch that they needed to find the dog's owner quickly.