Sam and Ruth Samson, college sweethearts, are founding members of a Christians for Justice (CFJ) commune in rural Northern Michigan begun in the late 1970s. Now, thirty years later, in 2005, as the commune is dwindling in size and vision, Sam's old college roommate and Ruth's secret obsession, Greer Hazelton, returns to the community to meet the child he fathered in a moment of weakness with Ruth sixteen years ago. Forsythia is devastated to learn...