Follows four Lakota families over three years to explore what it will take for this Native American community to build a better future in the face of tribal and government corruption, scarce housing, unemployment, and alcoholism. Intimate interviews with a spiritual leader, a grandmother, an artist, and a community activist from South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation reveal how each survives with help from family ties, as well as cultural traditions, humor, and a palpable yearning for self-reliance and personal freedom.