Once a child of the African plains, Abbe Deighton now feels constricted by her surroundings and its constant demands. The strain of motherhood, her minister husband, the leaking church roof, and the expectations of their congregation are becoming too much. Abbe's battlefield is transformed in an instant when her three-year-old daughter is killed, triggering in Abbe a seismic grief that will cut a swath through the landscape of her life and her identity.