As a novice horsewoman, Nancy Pfeiffer took off across Patagonia alone on horseback. Over the next two decades and 3,000 kilometers of rugged horse trail, the hospitable people who live there took her in, and Patagonia slipped silently into her soul. This is a story of a rapidly changing cultural landscape. It is a tale of a lone woman and a horse, on the most ancient of all journeys.