吉姆·哥德洛克（乔尔·金纳曼 Joel Kinnaman 饰）一家三口原本过着平凡幸福的生活，谁知在一个晴朗的日子里，两伙黑帮的街头火并彻底打碎了他们的幸福。儿子误中流弹身亡，愤怒的吉姆也在和黑帮对抗时被射中喉咙，几乎命丧当场。虽然经过抢救捡回了一条命，但是吉姆失去了声音，破碎的小家再也无法复原。万念俱灰的吉姆此时已完全被仇恨支配，…

Late sixteenth century. A Tameme Indian man and a noble Spanish woman flee through the forests of the New World in search of freedom. Their frantic journey softens the tension between them and dissolves their longstanding differences and creates intimate bonds that threaten their very survival.