Former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks has landed a job at a small local newspaper in Montana. A Blackfeet Indian girl missing for several months, turns up dead in a snowbank with a mysterious brand on her forearm. Lola discovers that several Blackfeet girls, all known drug users, have gone missing over the past year. Lola checks things out, only to find herself in a place where the law looks the other way, and life is cheap.