On the day that their rez, the territory of the Syilx First Nations, is holding a pow-wow partly as a measure to expose their culture to the wider "white" population in reconciliation, cousins and best friends Hank Crow-Eyes and Cody Kidd are embarking on a road trip "south" specifically to Wreck Beach - the clothing optional beach in Vancouver - where they hope to capitalize on their exotic nature in appealing to white girls. They have not formally told anyone of their plans, Hank who further wants to make this trip off the rez permanent in bemoaning rez life, especially its fishbowl nature where everyone knows everybody else's business. The problem is is that they are both unemployed and broke with no money to make the trip, they turning from their original plan to bilk people locally to conning unsuspecting white people along the way, again playing on their indigenous roots to sell what they will market as spiritually powerful but which are truly meaningless "Indian tears". The rez sheriff, Billy Cardinal, will be happy to get rid of them as being problems in their petty crimes, but he is able to rope them into one last task before their departure: to drive elder Hetta Yellow-Fly, an ornery and thus scary to them old woman, to the old reservation site so that she can reconcile with her long estranged and dying sister, Bertha. Hetta wants to make this trip more for her yet unborn grandchild's sake than for her own or Bertha's. Hank and Cody end up finding that there are forces, some spiritual or supernatural, as obstacles to them getting Hetta to her destination. Thrown into the mix are two white strangers who are trying to find a lost vehicle that contains some valuable cargo, something that Casper Manywords, who Hank and Cody considers the nicest guy on the rez, now unknowingly has in his possession, and that could get him killed in the process.