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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.

The untamed American wilderness serves as a brutal backdrop for a father's desperate hunt through a landscape fractured by war. This sprawling period epic captures the messy collision between individual survival and the violent birth of a new nation.

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