Tug (30), a White conservative Baptist minister, born on a farm in Piedmont North Carolina, writes a memoir about his second year of marriage to a liberal Black United Methodist minister from a large city in New England. Tug leads an all White Southern Baptist congregation; Amber is pastor of an integrated congregation. Everything appears to be normal until they are confronted with overt signs of prejudice and racial hatred from a few townspeople, including someone who tapes several signs with vile racist language and threats of harm to Tug on the church door where he preaches. Through all of their doubts, heartaches, and disappointments, they continue forward sustained by the support and love of their families, their faith, and their ever increasing love for each other and their newborn child.