Cloud, a warrior fighting alongside Crazy Horse at the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand in 1866, sets off in search of the white soldiers who have taken his wife captive, risking everything to reclaim the woman he loves.
Whirlwind, war leader of the Wolf Tail Lakota in the mid-eighteenth century, sets off a tragic chain of events when he comes across a white man near death from a bullet wound, and though confused over the use of guns, or "holy irons, " he decides to bring the man back to his camp.