Jesse Kingston doesn't want to go home to Bristol, New York, but his boss has ordered him to do so. Jesse loves his job as a New York State forest ranger, and the Adirondack Mountains forests have been his only home for a long time. His job is the one thing he's been able to commit himself to wholeheartedly with the total assurance that he won't be hurt. And now, even that has turned on him. His boss has given him an ultimatum-go home and get his head on straight, or hand in his resignation. But what does Jesse have at "home?" A family that he's never felt close to and a house with his name...