Mary is within her first year of marriage to Samuel who had returned home to their Amish community of Honeybrook, a year earlier, carrying with him secrets of a life time amongst the English. Pregnant and looking forwrd to the birth of their first child, she arrives home with her family on the last Sunday of January 2002, and collapses from a stroke. Upon awakening that following Monday, she finds herself being attended to in a military hospital far and away from her quiet community. Samuel by her side, Mary begins to find light in the darkness of her illness in the unveiling of Samuel's past, thus beginning her journey into the world of the English and Samuel's 25 years.