After the death of her daughter and the end of her marriage, Connie Sweet sells a portion of her farm and forestland to be made into a vineyard. She needs the money, but as she watches the platting, the fencing, and the logging, she begins to understand that the forest never really belonged to her; she belonged to it. Devastated by the loss, she teams with a friend's troubled nephew to survey the life of the land before it's gone forever, but her increasing recklessness risks more than she ever imagined.