Motivated by compassion and the urge to escape her dreary life with a boozing father (Dave Bushnell) and his world-weary girlfriend (Sarah Aldrich), young Ellen (Katherine Everitt) plans to rescue a brain-damaged lumberjack from a nursing home. Along the way, the teenager experiences first love and other adolescent rites of passage. Tim Everitt directs this coming-of-age tale based on a short story by Verna Everitt.