It's summertime in Bliss Creek, and Annie Shirack is trying to fight her feelings for David Plank, a young Amish man who's fighting an agressive case of Hodgkin's lymphoma. David loves Annie too much to let her into his life, only, he fears, to leave her.
In the middle of her own struggles, Annie meets a homeless young woman named Charisma and her three-year-old daughter, Gracie. Annie welcomes the newcomers into the Shirack household and tries to help them establish a new life. But all the good deeds in the world can't change the ache in Annie's heart, or help her forget the man she loves.