While traveling with a caravan, Wolfwood and Milly run into a young dancing girl, Moore, and help her escape from a group of men coming after her. They learn that Moore and Julius, the son of the caravan company's owner, are running away together after Julius' discovery that the caravan has been transporting humans as slaves. Vash stuns the group by accepting a contract from Julius' father to kill the boy for the good of the caravan.