Engaged to a wealthy rising political star, a driven social worker returns to her small-town roots. With her wedding to Robert Ashworth weeks away, Jolene Murdock receives a call from Dwight Etting, her estranged father's junior partner and her former boyfriend. The business is crumbling, and her father is dying. Compelled to visit in spite of Robert's objections, Jolene wonders if reconciliation is possible given her father's hatred of all things...