After being released from prison for accidentally killing his father sixteen years earlier, an emotionally aloof Willie Fulton makes his way for the north country, to isolate himself in the wilds of Canada, determined to live a life of enforced solitude. His plans, however, are interrupted by Lylah Whyte, a precocious, beautiful young woman who has ideas of her own. Together, they will create a family whose individual histories are revealed by way...