Synopsis: Actually the offspring of a Native American man and a white woman, tempestuous Texas heiress Nasa Springer grows up believing her father to be Pete Springer, a railroad tycoon. When her dad ships his emotionally troubled daughter off to a girls' school in Chicago, and later arranges a marriage for Nasa, she defies him by wedding a drunken cad. After the marriage crumbles and she turns up pregnant, Nasa's life spirals out of control.