When respected Arapaho tribal chairman Harvey Castle is found murdered on Wyomings Wind River Reservation all evidence points to his nephew as the killer. Recovering alcoholic Father John OMalley, exiled to an Indian mission, and tribal attorney Vicky Holden believe in the nephews innocence and set out to prove it. The trail they follow leads into Arapaho homes and community centers and the fraud infested world of Indian oil and land deals. Eventually it leads to the past and the horrendous crimes committed then.,