From the mountains and the valleys, they came to Texas for a new start, for freedom and for liberty. They didn't settle for anything less. From the Great Smoky Mountains, a young Tennessean hunter came west in search of personal freedom. What he got was so much more. After meeting a struggling family of foreigners, David helps them along and their eldest son helps himself to the fresh meat. They share each other's bodies and make each other's Christmas truly meaningful, even though the threat death by a renegade Comanche war party.