The film begins on an Amish settlement in Pennsylvania, where for 200 years a self-sufficient religious community has proudly held onto the ways of their ancestors. The Amish are deeply suspicious of outsiders and stubbornly dedicated to their rural lifestyle, with its horses and carriages, its communal barn-raisings, its gas lanterns instead of electricity, hooks instead of buttons.
An Amish man dies. His widow and young son leave on a train journey. In the train station in Philadelphia, the little boy witnesses a murder.Harrison Ford plays, John Booke, the tough big city detective who gets assigned to the case. He stages lineups hoping the kid can spot the murderer. He shows the kid mug shots. Then it turns out that the police department itself is implicated in the killing. Ford is nearly murdered in an ambush. His life and the lives of the widow and her son are in immediate danger. He manages to drive them all back to the Amish lands of Pennsylvania before collapsing from loss of blood
Book starts the movie as a very aggressive man and as the movie plays out he retains most of his aggression. However, Books does come to terms that every problem cannot be solved with his fist and there are some things that he won't understand. As the teens put ice cream on one of the Amish, Book is on the verge of attacking them but he does indeed try to be diplomatic toward the aggressors. This fails and Book results back to violence. Another change that he encountered was his relationship toward women. He begins as a chauvinistic man who seems not care too much about anyone other than himself. But even tho he knows he loves Rachel he has to let her go.
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