Many do not take the defeat of the South and the changes it brings well and sometimes his reports are treated with hostility.
One day he stumbles across a wrecked wagon and lynched driver. Hiding in the brush is a striking blonde and blue eyed young girl. Papers in the wagon identify her as Johanna, an orphan who has been living with a group of Native Americans until recently "rescued". The driver was returning her to her only known living relatives some 400 miles away.
Johanna (Helena Zengel) speaks no English, only a Native American language, and is somewhat "feral". Nobody in the next town is interested in her welfare so Kidd resolves to deliver her himself.
This slow and fairly formulaic Western was an easy watch but nothing special. Hanks is likeable as always and does a good job of portraying somebody who lives by verbal communication suddenly faced with incomprehension.
Fairly standard Western stuff happens and it paints a picture of the South as a post-war restless "occupied" place in a slightly heavy handed allegory to modern division in America.
Helena Zengel does well opposite Hanks and the scenery is pretty but it's ultimately very pedestrian 5/10.
Like a comfy pair of slippers there's nothing wrong with this but y'know...