Enter the world of Edward Curtis, the man who will win immortality photographing the Native Peoples of North America...and meet the demons he will face as he travels north to make his master work, the motion picture, "In the Land of the Headhunters", with the Kwakiutl Indians. The journey will take him to the darkest corners of the human soul. With his best friend George Hunt and his teenage daughter Beth he will seek the Cannibal at the North End of the World, and learn in the process that perhaps the greatest thing to fear will be himself.