Celilo Falls, on the Columbia River, was once a real place. It has been gone for fifty years now. The greatest salmon fishing site on earth, for over 10,000 years Celilo Falls was sacred to Native Americans.

This work of fiction was inspired by true stories from the Gorge and Columbia Plateau. It starts with an axe murder that took place a short distance from the grave of Celilo Falls. This is a tale of cultures in collision, a lost world, and the struggle for a future.