Wounded and disillusioned by the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved three years before. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and to survive in a world where certainties have been swept away.
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