The Grelliers and the Schapens are two families who have been farming in the Kaw River Valley for over a hundred and fifty years, their lives connected through the generations by history and geography. Gina Haring, bringing with her the liberal air of the big city, moves into a dilapidated house near both families` properties. Gina has secrets, her own reasons for being in the Kansas countryside, and they`re not necessarily what the people around her imagine. Susan`s involvement with her stirs up the wrath of the Schapen clan – and has cataclysmic results for her own family.