Alena Carson, Rayna Carson and Margaret Stills' lives are bound in an unbreakable circle of loss, generational struggles and the role of motherhood. When Alena loses her father, Jake, she faces the storm of her own emotions, the departure of her mother and a move to South Carolina to live with her Aunt Margaret. Beginning her life anew, Alena discovers that from the ashes of her former life a new life rises, and she is Lifted to a place she never imagined.