At the beginning of the Great Depression, Vee Haines, daughter of a Midwest banker, steals her father's luxury automobile on a road trip westward. Stranded on the edge of the Dust Bowl in northern New Mexico, she gifts to survive - and raise a son, alone - in a place called Starve-Out that is not on any map. Decades later, her family discovers that a silver bracelet Vee had worn for most of her life holds the key to her deepest love and darkest secret. Now her grandson must find the truth.