Car Scrope is a young man who has suffered through the destruction of his marriage and the loneliness that often comes after divorce. Car continues to live on the ranch he has lived on his entire life, despite his emotional loneliness, only to find happiness in a surprising place. Car has had a lot of medical metal placed in his body as the result of a terrible accident that occurred the night he found his wife in bed with his best friend. This metal reacts to silver on a set of spurs in a way that leaves Car in deep pain, but also extremely sexually aroused.