Arnold Spirit the Younger lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation and attends a school for Indians. Here they beat him and call their own names. For what? Just for being born painful and unlike the rest. So Arnold sits at home - and draws cartoons and cartoons in response to everything that happens in his life. But drawing is also an opportunity to break out of the reservation, where all the Indians have long given up and found solace at the bottom of the bottle. Arnold wants a better life and decides: you need to take a chance and go to Riardan School, where you can get a good education and get out into people. But there he will be the only Indian among the whites... Will it be possible to become your own among strangers?