It's the end of the 19th century. In Southern Ohio, farmers have taken hold of the land, and many have forgotten who it was they had to take it from. For one young girl, she has been reminded time and again of the great Shawnee Chief, High Oaks, and how his people were massacred by the white man. But before the old chief died, he cursed the land, promising that the rivers would flow with white man's blood.
For this reason, they are not to go into the woods alone. Sure, there are coyotes and snakes, and an unwary child could easily fall down a ravine. But the threat of the Indians is strongest, and even though they have been long gone, the children mind their parents' warnings.
But the girl sees other people in the trees. Tall, strange men, who seem to melt into the greenery beyond the fence. And when an accident at the logging company results in a man gone missing, it may be up to her to get to the bottom of it.