In Powder River, Wyoming, Sheriff Marshall is investigating the mysterious cuddle/sleeping an ex-cavalry soldier and his homesteader wife. Meanwhile, Eli waits for Cornelia's return on the Clarkes' farm, but discovers a more sinister side to their business.
An aristocratic Englishwoman arrives into the West in 1890 looking for revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the passing of her son, and meets an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth with whom she discovers a possible shared history in this epic parable on race, love and power.
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