John William Will Cooper is a modern-day rancher, maintaining his ranch in hard times along with his friend and foreman Amos Russell. When Wills estranged daughter Jake returns to the ranch for her grandfathers funeral, father and daughter clash over how to run the ranch and over the death years before of Jakes mother, which she blames on Will. Crisis comes in the form of insurmountable debt, and it is only by working together that Will and Jake have any chance of saving their home and their family.