Some fought for gold. The Indians fought for their lives. In 1850, the California sex slave industry was thriving in the mining towns that began popping up along the American River. Young native girls were being kidnapped from their families and tribes. Tintah is a young man whose mother was a slave and he was a product of her servitude. He now is a free man living on the river as a carver and master woodworker. When his love interest is captured by slavers, he sets out to free her. In the end, by serendipity, he must fight the men that captured his own mother and eventually kill his natural father to rescue the woman he loves.