- The son in a close-knit family of Wisconsin dairy farmers decides to get married and move out of the house, just as his mother discovers she has incurable leukemia and only a short time to live.
- This authentic-feeling heartfelt fall family drama is set on a real working dairy farm in Shawano, Wisconsin, a rural community near Green Bay, Wisconsin. The story centers on the lives and love of an aging stoic couple who are ambitious, hard-working, down to earth, community-celebrated dairy farmers, played by Ed Flanders and Patricia Neal, who struggle with life changes and navigate difficult family and farming decisions. Their college educated son, who has helped work the farm since childhood, plans to move away to the state Capitol city, Madison, with his fiancée to take an office job in the Department of Agriculture. Given that he and his father have had a strong but strained working relationship on the farm due to different generational perspectives on dairy farming, he is looking forward to moving away. His mother, however, is diagnosed with an advanced stage of leukemia. She is told that there is no treatment and that she has less than a year to live. She initially keeps this news from her husband to protect him but tells her son, pleading with him to stay on the farm to help his father when she is gone. He reluctantly agrees, wanting to honor her wishes and to fulfill family obligations. This puts significant stress on his relationship with his fiancée. Knowing this, his mother finally tells her husband about her terminal diagnosis. He makes the decision to leave the family farm to his son to let him run the farm independently on his own terms and for the first time, he verbally expresses the depth of his lifelong love for his wife.
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