An east coast bishop's son is wanted in Oregon for the bombing of a timber mill in an environmental action gone wrong. A man is dead, another is in a coma, the mill went up in flames and the suspects are on the lam. The bishop sends Samantha Baxter, new priest and former detective, out to search for his boy. With the help of a tiny church and a bunch of disaffected hippies she races against time and the law to discover where justice lies.