July 1933. Percy Bigler is a contented, homespun boy from the hills and hollows of Elizabeth, West Virginia, but as the Great Depression lingers, necessity leads him to enroll in the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC's projects require an army of hard-working laborers, and Percy doesn't shy from hazardous duties, but he finds himself in unfamiliar territory more than 2,000 miles from home where egos, innuendos, and a particularly stubborn female...