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A grieving mother unable to get over the death of her two young daughters finds her marriage and family life threatened due to her inability to let her newly adopted son into her heart in director T.C. Christensen's touching tale of loss and acceptance. Their trek across the American plains was a treacherous one, yet despite losing their two beautiful daughters in a tragic accident, Jed and his mourning wife, Martha, agree to raise young orphan Danny to the best of their abilities. As Martha's heart continues to drown in a perpetually welling tide of wistful memories, she finds herself unable show her new charge the love that she once showed her precious young girls. With Martha's marriage hanging in the balance and her husband and new son desperately trying to break down the stoic wall behind which she has chosen to lock herself away, one snowy Christmas Eve offers the unexpected welcoming of a second chance at life, love, and happiness.