Burnt-out former foreign correspondent Phillip McGuire is happy owning and running a bar in Lawrence, Kansas. He's happy with his new house in the country. But he's not happy. When two female Navajo students go missing from Haskell Indican College, he agrees to shelter a third. And then a mysterious, beautiful, Chinese woman, pursuing a hidden agenda, stumbles into his life. All the while, a half-Navajo young man begins to execute a plan to reopen the gates to the Holy People so that the Navajo may receive new gifts to rid themselves of the White man.