In this adaptation of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.

A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.

Seventeen-year-old Cally was born into the idyll of commune life. Since she was five, however, Cally has been living on a houseboat with her father, who is sweet but out of touch, barely able to get by, trying just to hold onto Cally. Then Cally meets the older and exotic Sabine, a runaway who has been running for far too long. Cally is intoxicated with her vivacity, her intensity, and in Sabine, Cally sees something of herself. Cally finds Sabine...