Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
Ramona, una joven mestiza, aunque ella lo ignora, vive en la hacienda de la señora Moreno, quien la adoptó, con el hijo de ésta, a quien Ramona considera como un hermano. Todo cambiará cuando llegue Alessandro, el jefe de los esquiladores de ovejas.
Ramona, a young girl growing up on her adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian lad Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the two lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the bigotry and greed of the white landowners.
