Oregonskaya tropa, 1853. Naomi Mey edva ispolnilos' dvadcat' let, kogda ona ovdovela. Eto i stalo nachalom nastoyashchih ispytaniy dlya devushki i ee blizkih. V poiskah luchshey zhizni bol'shoe semeystvo Mey otpravlyaetsya v opasnoe puteshestvie na Zapad.
V doroge ih provodnikom, oporoy i zashchitoy stanovitsya Dzhon Louri. On zhivet mezhdu dvuh mirov, chuzhak sredi indeycev i chuzhak sredi bel...