Cast away from his native tribe, Sam lives under a bridge while the white people call him crazy. The white people had called him useless and sent him away to die by himself. However, he survived while scavenging food and shelter supplies from the neighboring towns and avoiding capture in a reservation. The whites leave him alone after deeming him harmless.
However, Sam secretly gets revenge by using his powers as a shaman. He wills the cars on the bridge above into fatal accidents by topping sticks with hair and kicking them into the river. One day, a group of men force Sam to evacuate his shack by demolishing it in the river.
Meanwhile, a native woman named Emmy One Horse feels “little brown devils” flying around her head. She screams in fear with hallucinations of these devils that are not actually brown, but are actually boys in colored jackets taunting her. She runs home and opens her closet to find nothing there. She falls and scrapes her knee, and thinks about how the boys wanted her to go fishing with them so they could use her as a source of entertainment. They taunt her for having a brown “Injun” father, despite the fact that her mother is white.
Sam and Emmy sit together on a grassy knoll and talk about how they are the last two Indians. Sam insists that they should “make medicine” to kill all the whites in the land and leave it for the natives. However, when Sam gets ready to kick his hair-topped shaman sticks into the river, he misses and falls in the water, hitting his head and floating away unconsciously. Emmy leaves wordlessly.
Later on, Emmy notices that she has less frequent headaches and anxiety. She even tries to kick one of Sam’s shaman sticks in the water and nothing happens.