It’s 1943, and Walter Chase is still bitter about being denied enlistment in the war. Reeling from his best friend’s betrayal and a miserably failed romance, he feels there’s not much left to hold on to. When a freak accident leaves him the responsibility of his family’s Indiana farm, Walter knows he’s in way over his head.

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Rose Everett is finally getting her life back together after the death of her boyfriend early in the war. Her job as a school teacher provides just the distraction she needs until a long-lost letter arrives and shatters her fragile peace. Desperate to smother her grief, Rose volunteers her summer to help Walter and his family.

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As they work side by side, their life-long friendship fosters healing and grows into the possibility of something more. But when a stranger assigned to work on the farm turns up, his controversial beliefs threaten to unravel everything they thought they were fighting for.