约翰(凯文·贝肯 Kevin Bacon 饰)和海伦(凯利·普雷斯顿 Kelly Preston 饰)结婚多年,感情一直十分要好,两人共同将两个孩子布兰登(Stuart Lafferty 饰)和卢卡斯(乔丹·加勒特 Jordan Garrett 饰)养育成人,一家四口的生活可谓是幸福美满。
某日,约翰载着布兰登,开车行驶在回家的道路上,两人将车暂时停在了一间加油站处,殊不知这一举动彻底改变了他们的命运。在加油站,布兰登遇见了乔(马特·欧莱瑞 Matt O'Leary 饰),后者是黑帮领袖比利(加内特·赫德兰 Garrett Hedlund 饰)的弟弟,拥有着和哥哥一样凶残冷酷的个性,约翰脑海中有关儿子最后的影像,是他倒在血泊之中的模样。重重波折之后,法院释放了乔,因为凯文决心亲手替儿子报仇,曾经平凡而又和善的男人,义无反顾的踏上了一条充满了暴力和鲜血的道路。
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee intertwines the perspectives of three characters: Charles Eastman (Beach), né Ohiyesa, a young, Dartmouth-educated, Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation; Sitting Bull (Schellenberg), the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, their dignity and their sacred land – the gold-laden Black Hills of the Dakotas; and Senator Henry Dawes (Quinn), who was one of the architects of the government policy on Indian affairs. While Eastman and patrician schoolteacher Elaine Goodale (Paquin) work to improve life for the Indians on the reservation, Senator Dawes lobbies President Grant (Thompson) for more humane treatment, opposing the bellicose stance of General William Tecumseh Sherman (Feore). Hope rises for the Indians in the form of the prophet Wovoka (Studi) and the Ghost Dance – a messianic movement that promises an end of their suffering under the white man. This hope is obliterated after the assassination of Sitting Bull and the massacre of hundreds of Indian men, women and children by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek on Dec. 29, 1890. Written by HBO Film