On a warm and sunny summer's day, a mother and father take their young daughter Dollie on a riverside outing.
In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the greed and injustice of the white landowners.
