A New York fur trapper leads a simple life until the outbreak of the American war of Independence. As he struggles to protect his son, who has been drafted into service, he forms a relationship with an aristocratic woman who has turned against the British. Historical drama, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland and Nastassja Kinski.

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.