When academic good girl, Sheriden Lewis, inadvertently falls pregnant following the school prom, her future is derailed. Afraid for her future she drops out of school in order to care for her son only to find the isolation of small town rural life in the American mid west to be intolerable. With her long-time friend, Vanessa, Sheri moves to Dodge City to start a new life but the realities of raising a child alone on a low income soon intrude on her happiness. Mature beyond her years, she struggles to fit in with the young crowd and finds herself bogged down and depressed by the bleak...

When Jonah Lewis enlists for active combat duty in Afghanistan he is motivated by the desire to make a difference. But when his beliefs and ideologies are challenged by the realities of existence in this conflict troubled region, he is driven to the brink of despair. Only the loving determination of his cousin, Jewell, is able to pull him back into life and teach him the anchoring value of family as the means by which a meaningful life can be built.