Set in Alaska and Yukon, this is the passionate story of the Gwichin-Indians' fight against Big Oil, for the sake of protecting the calving grounds of the 120,000-head Porcupine caribou herd in the remote Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling. It illuminates the fateful encounter of two cultures: the subsistance-based life of a modest society and the greedy hunger of globalization - and of two peoplel, Nora Tetlichi, daughter of the Grand Chief of the Gwichins, and David Turner, typical city boy and son of the mighty Chairman of Environ Oil & Gas Corporation, Dallas, Texas.