The Story opens when The People are worn out and dragging a low morale at their winter camp at Great Falls, Montana. They feel challenged by the Rockies on the west side but too tired to go back the way they came. It took them seven years to make it this far. At this point they feel they are doomed as no babies have been born for longer than a year and all the other babies and young children died along the way. Just taking the journey this far turned out to be a threat to their culture and way of life. Just when all seemed lost, the rising sun in the east brings with it a friend from the past who leads them beyond their vision and to new life.