After the mysterious murder of her abusive husband, a troubled widow moves into her late grandmother's lake house, but upon discovering her husband's past and hidden fortune, she must risk her life to get back what is hers.

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.