They met not at the happiest hour of their lives. Tressie buried her mother and brother, and on the same day a wounded stranger appeared on the threshold of her hut - the handsome black-haired Reed Bannon. Left completely alone in the world. Tressy, in desperation, persuades the young man to take her with him - she must find her father, who has gone in search of gold. The son of an Indian woman and a white hunter, Reed is also lonely, and even having fallen in love with the brave Tressie, he is afraid of this love, afraid to connect his fate with her.

On a difficult and sometimes deadly journey, their feelings grow stronger... but On the way to happiness, a man stands in the way, burning with an unquenchable thirst for revenge...