Carole Meadows seems to have obtained her own little slice of Americana. Married to a handsome, young doctor and making a name for herself in the financial industry, she seems settled in her life in South Carolina. But a growing discontentedness with her chosen path and a nagging chapter from her past threaten to shatter her seemingly idyllic life. Then the sudden suicide of Caroles cousin, Sarah, a woman with whom Carole has always had a contentious relationship, takes a bigger toll on her than she could have ever imagined. When she discovers that her husband played a role in Sarahs death, Carole succumbs to a depression so devastating, it threatens to destroy her.With the help of a sympathetic therapist, an overprotective mother, and her best friend, Shirley, Carole struggles to put the pieces of her life back together. On an impulse, she signs on as a counselor at a summer camp in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Under the guidance of the camps leader, Dr. Robert Tucker, a Lakota Indian who has secrets of his own, Carole embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery and learns the true meaning of friendship, tolerance, and love.