Rubis Caillou Morin is a widow, midwife, and faith healer from the Gaspé. Before her untimely death in 1873, she sends her young son west -- to be safe and to help her brothers settle new land. The young Raoul carries with him a shadowy understanding of how and why his mother died, and a small red book filled with his mother's wisdom and love. The red book sees Raoul not only through his own life, but helps his great-grand-daughter to find the truth about healers, about Rubis and, most importantly, about the unshakeable code of loyalty, responsibility and consequence that rules the people she calls family.