There are in our world mysteries that defy understanding. Once in a while there comes a gift. Not often. Not to everyone. Or perhaps in our rush we fail to see the gift or acknowledge it for what it is. Julia and Sam move in the 1880s to the developing Ortsvale hills among wildlife and pioneers where they befriend their neighbors, a family of color. Almost 140 years later on a spring afternoon Andie walks for the last time in the Ortsvale hills that tomorrow will be devastated. As she gazes into the forest she experiences a vision of its pioneer inhabitants following which her drive for answers leads her to understand her present. In seeking her city's roots she discovers the universal design of all individuals throughout the centuries. The lives of Julia and Andie touch as each in her own time faces relational issues common across the ages as times change and people do not.