A disgraced Confederate Colonel who has deserted his command flees to the Everglades where he encounters a disparate group of four other Southern deserters. Together they struggle to find their way out of the swamp and resolve their own personal demons under the eyes of hostile Seminoles as they battle to survive the elements and each other.
The story of woman's change from an innocent teenager to an embittered, disillusioned prostitute and the life tragedies which brought the transformation.
In the 1830s a Florida slave trader captures the wife of Chief Osceola, setting off a war between the Seminoles and the U.S. Army.
A newspaperman covering the story of a "Eurasian beauty" visiting the US as a publicity stunt falls for her.
