Buff Templeton is a Kickapoo who was adopted as a toddler. He is now a teacher in a girls school in Vermont. Buff is successful and engaged to be married. He lives free of prejudice because of his education, and the reputation of his respected father. Buff realizes that he has clairvoyance that others dont. Strange recurring dreams haunt him. One day his sweetheart is spirited out of town by her father who has suddenly began to question Buffs Indian heritage. Marrietta has other ideas and defies her father. That same day Buff sees a vision of his fathers murder. Broken-hearted, he leaves on a dreaded journey to find the killer. All clues lead to the Kickapoo around Highland, Kansas. This journey takes Buff into a world he has only dreamed abouta world in which there is no escape.
