A Canadian naval officer struggles to come back from a massive fire on his ship and then faces the devastation of cancer while trying to live on for his family.

The story of Cassidy, cam girl in modern-day SoCal; Paloma, Fulbright scholar in newly Westernized Prague; Jane, farm girl working at the FBI in DC during WWII. Each leaves Appalachia to find a new life, only to be pulled back to the land they know.