Reuben Ian Peterson, a severe sufferer of porphyria, is admitted to a Virginia mental hospital, after attempting to self-mutilate. While there he meets and falls passionately in love with Dawn Moon, a promiscuous, 18-year-old Native American, who believes herself to be a wolf and once cornered, shows there is more to her animalistic nature than meets the eye. Their love is forbidden and taboo, but is a torrid love, which is unbreakable...