November, 1879, Dakota Territory.
Corporal John Taylor, one of Custer's avengers, is bored and lonely at Fort Grummond, a small, isolated outpost associated with a Lakota Sioux reservation.
Any glimpse of Jeannie Scheid, the beautiful 17-year-old daughter of the Indian agent, Orville Scheid, exacerbates his frustration.
Scheid insists the Indian children learn English.
Chief Stone Bear refuses.
Scheid blunders and uses a single, ill-chosen word that terrifies the reservation's.