Based on a true story, a black educator takes a job teaching high-school English at the Three Nations Reservation, and is coaxed into coaching the girls basketball team.
During the holidays at a ski resort in Utah run by a Native American tribe, the overworked manager and a widowed woman from the big city overcome mistaken identities and intrusive guests in their pursuit of romance.
Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire grow up together as neighbors and acquaintances on the Coeur D'Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho, fighting with each other and simultaneously forming a close, albeit uneasy, friendship.