In Texas, in 1872, John Ellis, a former slave, and Sarah, a young orphan, founded New Babylon, a city of outcasts. Django arrives in the city on a search for the murderer of his family. There he finds his daughter Sarah, the sole survivor of the massacre.
After Sarah discovers an oil source, she wants to visit a banker in Elmdale together with John. Elizabeth plans an attack on the two, but Django comes to their aid.
John, his sons, Django and Sarah travel to Nagadoches, where an old friend of John's might sell them a drill; alerted by Aaron, her protégé who infiltrated New Babylon, Elizabeth organizes an attack.
Django and Seymour go on a mission to sell oil but Seymour is captured and Django, Sarah and John must find a way to save him.
Django uses a ruse to find out if Seymour is a traitor. He is supposed to accompany a bogus oil shipment to the north while another shipment is made to the south.
With a lawsuit, Elizabeth tries to take the country from her opponent John. When John is arrested by Sheriff Boone, Django wants to help his friend and clear up the injustice.
