Pulitzer Prize-winning play concerned with the despair of a sixty-three-year-old traveling salesman when he is forced to face the reality he has evaded all his life.
Church and state officials persecute a simple peasant girl who claims to have seen a vision of "a beautiful lady" at the site of what becomes the Shrine of Lourdes.
Set in 1885 in Nevada. When a popular rancher is murdered and the mayor of his town forms a posse, two travellers join in and are swept up in their mission to seek vengeance, even upon those innocent of any wrongdoing.