Joshua, the hero of Dead Time, is a Native American, a member of the crow nation who has the adopted the white man's way and become a farmer. In the 1860's, he and his family was killed by a marauding band of Confererate renegades. Flash to the present, over a century later, where the murderers have been recincarnated as a motorcycle gang, and the crow brings back Joshua to carry out his mission of vengeance.