It is 1667 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and an uneasy Ceasefire exists between local Puritans and their neighbors, the Algonquian peoples. Chief Metacomet succeeds his father Massasoit as head of the latter just as a new colonist, Hester Prynne arrives overseas from England. As Hester waits for her husband - who is due to follow shortly after - she falls for a young minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. When it emerges that Roger Prynne has likely been killed by Indigenous peoples of the Americas, they become inseparable lovers.