Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live. You have to look about you, see how things are, grow things or buy things as the case may be.
Time and time again, a young woman is forced to learn that life goes on no matter what... until it doesn't. As a girl, her family is murdered for being Indian. As a teenager, she is raped by the man who claims to love her and want to marry her, while his friend held her immobile, although she does not have words to describe what was done to her or even memory to tell her who did it. She only remembers when the man's mother kills him for wanting to marry her, and his friend — the local sheriff by then who's ensured she's sentenced to hang for the crime — gloats about his role in the debacle.