A desperate woman fleeing for her life holds a cold-blooded murderer at gunpoint and says, "Take me with you."

Thus her bid for freedom entwines with the bitter outlaw's quest for vengeance, and a tale of grand passion and wild adventure unfurls. Set in the Texas and New Mexico of Billy the Kid, their love and sacrifice become the stuff of legend, the legend of "La Desperada."

Originally titled What Wild Ecstasy