John August's well-ordered life turns topsy-turvy upon his return home from a summer of fighting tundra fires in Alaska. His girlfriend promptly dumps him, and the beloved 58-acre meadow near his home is threatened by the bulldozer blade. He soon learns that the city council of the small town where he lives is being controlled by a real estate developer who plans to build a strip mall and a housing development on the meadow. John's empathy for a pair of nesting hawks in the meadow motivates him to fight off its destruction by forming an alliance with a die-hard environmental activist, an ambitious real estate agent, and a street-savvy lawyer. Along the way he falls in love again while enduring a reign of terror carried out by a psychopathic lawyer who happens to be his former girlfriend's new love interest.
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