Jamie Dawson

Jerzy Kosinski, Holocaust survivor and one of the 20th century's most enigmatic, controversial novelists (as the author of books such as Being There and The Painted Bird), sees his life and literary career unravel after having the authenticity of his work questioned by two reporters from The Village Voice.

Tensions between whites and Native Americans in Colorado Territory explode in the fall of 1864, resulting in the infamous Sand Creek Massacre, wherein hundreds of innocent Cheyenne and Arapaho were slaughtered by U.S. Army soldiers under the command of Civil War "hero" and former Methodist minister, Col. John M. Chivington.