British Lord Marty Melbourne has traveled back in time to save his sons' ancestor. Now, lost in 1781 North Carolina, his troubles increase when he's assaulted and robbed by the callous Grant MacLeod, a ne'er do well who is dragging his younger sister and her young child across the country, robbing and pillaging at every opportunity. Marty escapes with his life but little else. No horse, no shoes and no sense of direction thwart Marty's homecoming to 2013.Life becomes even more complicated with the arrival of a Cherokee hunting party. Marty and two very different women voluntarily join the Indian tribe for different reasons. Marty still wants to go home and makes his desires known to the chief, a man of few words. But Red Shirt needs to make use of the crazy white man before leading him to The Trees, the bad medicine place that had swallowed up his younger brother years ago.