Will Lansa spent the summer with his father on the Hopi reservation in Arizona, and now that he's back in Aspen, Colorado, Will feels like an outsider. He breaks up with his girlfriend, Myra, and then becomes the last person who saw her alive. When a knife is discovered with blood on its blade and traces of a drug on its handle, Will is suspected of committing the murder. His only allies are a computer hacker and a Hopi spirit who visits Will in his dreams. Haunted by visions of Myra's death, Will won't rest until he proves his innocence and finds Myra's murderer.