An intimate coming of age story of a pregnant single mother who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family.

Based on a true story. An unassuming small-town homemaker teams up with an untested lawyer to save her family from the billion-dollar coal destroying their health and local natural resources.

It centers on Val who finds herself and her young children held hostage by Denny when he forces his way into her house after committing murder that day.