Ambitious reporter, Roberta Taylor from the east knows there is no future for her and drifter Damien Larocque. Regardless of how much his exotic looks and fun-loving character tug at her heart-strings, he is Metis and the Metis are the group who are threatening to leave Canada if things don’t change in the west. Set in the year before Canada’s Civil War – the Riel Rebellion of 1885.