El tinent McAllister rep l'ordre de transportar un carregament de municions a través del territori apatxe. Per realitzar aquesta missió només compta amb un petit destacament format per inexperts soldats de cavalleria. Els acompanya en Jess Remsberg, un veterà explorador de l'exèrcit que intenta trobar a Ellen Grange, una captiva dels apatxes que, després d'haver estat alliberada, inexplicablement hi ha tornat.
This drama is based on the childhood memories of Hans Jürgen Massaquoi, who was one of the few black native Germans in Nazi Germany. In 1935 at the age of nine, he lives with his German mother in a small flat in Hamburg's working class district Barmbek, while his father and grandfather had left the country. Although the boy is not persecuted by the Nazis and dreams of joining the Hitler Youth, his skin color makes him a target for racist abuse...