A new arrival to America, Irish artist Maureen O'Rourke is commissioned to paint watercolors at a Lousiana cotton plantation. There, she spies a man in the woods-a proud and noble Chitimacha chief. He is called Racing Moon, and Maureen longs to capture his beauty on canvas. But when the chief returns her admiration, their newfound passion ignites the rage of Maureen's employer...Racing Moon's bitterest enemy.