Phillip Beaushack heads out of the metropolis of Crumbleton on what he thinks will be a quick personal business trip. Along the way he runs into Gretchen, a quirky storyteller in a small town on top of Fence Mountain. As Phillip listens to Gretchen entertain a small group of locals with an adventurous tale, something stirs him. On impulse, Phillip decides to stick around and dig for more about the tale and more about its teller. As the story behind the story begins to unfold, it unveils chance encounters and selfish motives that have been woven into guarded secrets, secrets that are ready to be told. From the top of Fence Mountain a methodical businessman, a quirky storyteller, an elementary school teacher, and a seasoned soldier discover their lives are more connected than they realized, and that the end of a story is sometimes a really good place to begin again.