The only goal, the only meaning of the life of young Hannah Loles is to find and punish the people responsible for the death of her parents.

The hunt for criminals leads the girl to the high society of New York, which once rejected her mother for her love for cowboy from the Wild West - and into the arms of the desperate adventurer Slade Garrett...

Garrett promises his beloved help and protection - however, the more Hannah learns about him, the clearer it becomes to her that the man whom she loved with all her heart and to whom she gave herself recklessly, hides something...