After the sudden death of her husband, Edie must save her dairy farm from debt while reconciling with her drug-addicted father.

SYNOPSIS:

Edie’s husband, Tony, died three months ago in a tragic accident. Edie works nights as a security guard, runs the empty and failing family farm store, and now must maintain the small dairy farm all on her own. Working herself ragged, she can hardly believe what is handed to her one morning.

Hannah, the town bank manager, delivers a past due notice of staggering debt. If Edie can’t pay the loan, the bank will foreclose. Edie is shocked. She had no idea that Tony had taken out a loan, and how could he without her permission? In a small, close-knit town, some people bend the rules for a favor. But that favor is now destroying Edie’s life.

Bill, Edie’s father, moves back to the farm with his mother, Joy, from his third stint in opioid recovery. He wants to help Edie as much as a father can, but at his age and with his limitations, he only sees himself as an aging farmer with nothing to give, and Bill soon finds the pull of addiction coming back.

Joy, Edie’s grandmother, is battling early on-set Alzheimer’s. She has moments of lucidity that offer sage advice and love, but when lost, Joy causes more stress than Edie can handle.

Feeling out of place and losing control, Bill goes out to work the cows, but the pain of decades of hard farm labor quickly catches up to him. Knowing that a severe injury could get him a prescription of pain medication, Bill decides to provoke one of the cows into kicking him. But his stunt only plunges Edie deeper into debt forcing her to sell her “girls,” the dairy cows.

Devastated, Edie now has a farm with no cows, a debilitated father, a grandmother who cannot take care of herself, and now no job. The plant she worked for is shutting down leaving her and the town in a deeper economic crisis.

Grasping for straws, the bank tells Edie that if she sold a parcel of her land, specifically, the family farm store, the debt would be close to being wiped out. Edie could stay in her home with her family, but a large part of her family’s legacy would fall into the hands of someone else.

Suffering from her own physical ailments, Joy can’t find her pills and sends Edie to find them. Taped to the inside of Bill’s toilet tank, Edie finds them and confronts Bill screaming, “How many times do I have to catch you?” Edie kicks him out of the house and out of her life.

Edie’s father-in-law, David, picks up the pieces that were once Bill. They are still family with or without Tony alive. When telling Edie about her father’s whereabouts, he reveals his doubt that Tony died in an accident. Could Edie have never considered Tony did it to himself?

Edie decides that her land has nothing more to offer than hardship and pain. Foreclosure is the lesser of two evils, she thinks, as she starts to pack up decades of family belongings. It’s when she enters the bedroom she shared with Tony, the room she has not entered since his death, that she discovers a suicide note. It was true. He did commit suicide. He left her.

Edie calls Bill, and after revealing a revolver in her desk, Bill is able to break Edie away and let her have the chance to break down for the first time since Tony died.

Now reconciled, Bill and Edie enter the house to pack it up once and for all only to find Joy has passed in her sleep.

The morning of the funeral, the day before the foreclosure, Edie wonders if anyone will show up. How many people remember Joy? And that’s when a train of cars and mourners file into the driveway to pay their respects to a woman who was a pillar in the community.

“Farming is a young person’s game,” says David as he enters the reception. He sold his farm and is moving to the sea, which he has never seen. David then hands Edie a check that covers her debt and saves her family’s store. Through the help her family and neighbors, she’s home. As the guests leave and Edie cleans up her house, Bill finds two old pill bottles in a back cabinet. After studying them, he pours them down the sink and fills a kettle for tea.