The Grelliers and the Schapens are two families who have been farming inthe Kaw River Valley for over a hundred and fifty years, their livesconnected through the generations by history and geography. Gina Haring,bringing with her the liberal air of the big city, moves into adilapidated house near both families' properties. Gina has secrets, herown reasons for being in the Kansas countryside, and they're notnecessarily what the people around her imagine. Susan's involvement withher stirs up the wrath of the Schapen clan - and has cataclysmic resultsfor her own family.