Dawn Red Sky must attempt to escape the ultimate persecution in order to save her dignity. While on a long journey alone in the wilderness, she learns about being a woman of fierce independence under the stars, finding strength in ways she never could have imagined. She is captured by an enemy nation and sold as a bargain to a frontier bachelor with a shady past. He changes her name to 'Victoria' trying to make her look 'white' to blend in with the gold mining town of Helena. Victoria Redsky finds dirty challenges that has herself questioning her submissive circumstances and playing second fiddle to the white women in town of Hell's Gate, Montana, known as the 'badlands' full of lewdness, vice, and outlaws. Victoria longs to return to her people adrift in a drug epidemic. She is caught between saints and sinners, women against women, trying not to get attached to men who are fly-by-nights.