David Turnbull, a young American Indian physician, learns that Hannah, his beloved grandmother, has died. She helped to forge his dream of becoming a healer, and, in her honor, he returns to his reservation for her funeral. In the mountains of Idaho, David reluctantly faces his fragmented family and the alcoholic father from whom he escaped fifteen years earlier. He learns that they are about to lose whatever property they have left. Saving them means making peace with his bereft mother, helping his father at last embrace sobriety, and saving his reckless brother from a brush with death. David must confront the anger and bitterness he has harbored since childhood, searching his soul for a new image of himself as a man, an Indian and a physician.