At home with his eldest son Treyston and his wife Helen, Larry Gordy struggles to explain the pain of raising a family on what he calls "a Native American prisoner of war camp." Living on this poisoned land has killed family members and blighted his livestock, but he cannot imagine leaving the land of his people. They live with their three children in a small trailer with no running water and live off of the cattle Larry raises and the Navajo trinkets that Helen sells on the side of the highway.