Three young people from very different backgrounds--the son of a wealthy New Mexican rancher, a Navajo slave, and a young Texan soldier--who find themselves held for ransom by a pair of horse thieves learn to look beyond their differences.
Unable to complete his warrior training, hounded by an Apache outlaw, and uneasy with the attempts of the "white-eyes" to educate him, Solito, a teenage Chiricahua Apache brave, tries to find his own place in a changing world.