Jude Connor's Idaho hometown is a place of strong values and high expectations. For those who fit into the local church's narrow confines, there's support and fellowship; however those who don't are faced with ostracism in this life and the continual threat of damnation in the next. Jude wants desperately to be saved, but he also feels a growing need to decide for himself how to live and who to love, leading him to question the church's teachings...