Movie Story : In 1870, a former Confederate soldier named Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd earns a living by traveling from town to town across post-Civil War Texas, reading newspaper stories aloud to people hungry for word of the wider world. He is hired to escort a young girl, Johanna, who was taken in a raid as a child and raised by a Kiowa family, back to her relatives in San Antonio. The journey is dangerous, and the two strangers must survive hostile men and harsh terrain while slowly learning to trust each other.