Stifinderen Jess Remsberg slutter sig i sin jagt efter manden, der har dræbt hans kone, til løjtnant McAllister's vogntog gennem apache-territoriet. McAllister står i spidsen for en flok uerfarne rekrutter og får brug for Remsberg's hjælp. Stifinderen forsøger samtidig at finde en hvid kvinde, han allerede én gang har reddet fra indianerne. Et opgør med apacherne synes uundgåeligt.

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...