When Chantel Panetta's younger sisters falls in love with Orlando Calarco, Chantel attempts to aid the young couple even though the Panettas and Calarcos have been sworn enemies for decades. Chantel then has a run-in with Dante, Orlando's older brother, and she can't deny the attraction. Then a tragedy occurs at the mine and there seems to be no hope for resolving differences in this 1880's iron-mining community.