For acting lieutenant Jim Chee, the murder of a Navajo Tribal Police
Officer seems like an open-and-shut case when he discovers a Hopi
poacher huddled over the victim's butchered corpse. However, Chee's
newly retired predecessor, Joe Leaphorn, believes otherwise.
Hired to find a missing biologist who was searching for the key to a
virulent hidden plague -- and who vanished in the same area and on the
same day the policeman was slain -- Leaphorn suspects both events are
somehow connected. And the reported sighting of a "skinwalker" -- a
Navajo witch -- has Leaphorn and Chee seeking answers to a deadly riddle
in a dark place where superstition and science collide.
Performed by George Guidall