A white man arrives in a dilapidated village high on a desert mesa with the intention to rebuild its schoolhouse. The local Indians are not happy about this uninvited guest messing with their village buildings and attempt to stop him. Something about this man and his decidedly racist ways, however, confuse and perturb the locals such that they preoccupy their entire lives with him. And so begins an ordeal that will break one or both into a defeated ghost or ghosts of the village's storied past.