Finnius lives out his lifelong dream: To photograph the Old West. He takes the Anima Obscura with him. He finds a tribe in southeast Nebraska called the Minachakwa who seem to represent what people generally view as embodying the American west. He sets up a makeshift darkroom and develops a few photographs when he has time.

A disease begins to spread among the Minachakwa Indians, one in which the victim turns to dust. Finnius leaves the tribe so he won't catch the disease. He finishes developing the photographs in Kansas City.