This is a story of family, relationships, friendship, love, fortune, misfortune and some lucky events. In other words it is a story about life and the living of it. A 35 year old man is in a position in his life where he needs to make a lot of changes and he has the good fortune to inherit a beautiful ranch from a grandfather, who he hasn't had any contact with since he was a teenager almost 20 years ago, in a small rural town. Along with the inheritance of the ranch comes the responsibility of helping out a 17 year old boy with Down syndrome, the boy has lived with his grandfather for his whole life but the grandson didn't know the boy even existed, and taking on the responsibility of caring for the boy is a requirement of the will if he wants to inherit the property. There are some twists in the plot as the two main characters get to know each other and interact with the townspeople, who have a vested interest in the outcome of the relationship between the young man living at the ranch and the man who comes to care for him, literally and figuratively. The story is about the building of the relationship of these two main characters and also some startling discoveries unfold to the man about his family that he finds out that he didn't know a lot about them. There is also a contentious relationship between the two young men and the people of the town the ranch is located in.