Running from a tragic childhood loss, Sodalia Louise Johnson leaves her home in North Dakota and spends many years seeking sanity and peace. Finally, after hitting yet another dead end, she returns to her long abandoned roots. Plunging into the beauty, bigotry, and violence of the Great Plains she is again confronted with the threat of devastating loss. Will she stand her ground this time or succumb to her compulsion to flee, run from the pain, the people she loves best, and the land that speaks to her soul?