Tully Coates, Jr. (Anson Mount), with his good looks and chiseled body is the local heartthrob.While he has a new girlfriend virtually every night, he's incapable of getting close to anyone.His younger brother Earl (Glenn Fitzgerald) is the shy and sensitive type.The only common bond between these disparate siblings is Ella Smalley (Julianne Nicholson), an intelligent and even-tempered young woman who returns to their Nebraska hometown to intern at a local veterinarian's clinic. Meanwhile, their father, Tully, Sr. (Bob Burrus), a rancher who gets by with the help of his two sons, carries a brooding sadness, a hint of past wounds.As Tully and Ella get emotionally drawn to each other and Tully, Sr. confronts his past, the events of one summer change their world forever.
