A deserted railroad depot sets the scene for a journey back into the world and songs of American Country legend Johnny Cash. A rusted freight car, a ragged old flag,  tracks overgrown with time, and out a dark tunnel, the aged 'Man in Black'. Along the lines of his legendary theme-album 'Ride This Train' Cash is on a long ride home, back to his boyhood roots in the cottonfields of Dyess, Arkansas.
Johnny Cash was a man like America itself: upstanding, righteous and violent. Raised during the Depression years on rich, black Mississippi Delta land, Cash always felt himself attracted to the underdogs and outsiders of this world. His songs mirror his own dark instincts, burning desires and hidden fears. The long years of drug addiction as well as a violent, self-destructive vein were the dark sides of a deeply religious man who demanded justice for all, and searched to free himself from a self-imposed prison. In the end it was the relentless love of his wife June Carter, her never-ending battle to beat the drugs and demons, and her unshakable faith which saved Johnny Cash from the abyss. This is their story.