American Indians believe that behind all individual spirits are personifications of the divine.  The Great Mystery. Every grain of sand, every story is a work of this life force.  Our story shares a glimpse of this mystery.
As the film opens in black, we pan across faces painted in blood:  a man singing a solemn high-pitched chant, another beating a drum, and a distraught woman focused on an object in front of her.  We cut to broad daylight. Montana in the 1930s.  We meet Stratton Eiseley at the end of his father’s funeral, as the bank forecloses on the family ranch.  After Stratton meets the three people from the opening sequence, they embark on a life-altering whirlwind journey into THE LAST BEYOND.