When a wildfire forces her small Amish community to abandon their Montana homes, Christine Mast makes the decision not to move with her family to Kansas. On her own for the first time, she works at her uncle's store in St. Ignatius, a small Amish town on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
There she meets Raymond Old Fox, and they form a friendship that stretches Christine's world beyond the tight boundaries of her Amish faith. He introduces her to the rich cultural history of his ancestors and their close ties to nature. She tells him about her faith and way of life that centers so firmly around forgiveness.
While Christine's mind is expanding through the deep conversations with Raymond, her heart is pulling her back home where her beau, Andy tends to his ailing father. She knows he is wrestling with something of his own, but why won't he let her in?
