On a hot August day in 1971 in Hope, BC., Sage and Della Howard are driving to Fernie to start a job and begin a new life. They stop for a break at a fair, lose their dog and in the search find a crying toddler in the nearby woods instead, and just as unexpectedly, are back on the road continuing their journey with her. As the story unfolds and years pass, the Howards keep their dark secret and raise Stacey as their own.