After the death of her husband, Faith Winter, a Los Angeles AIDS physician, moves herself and her reluctant high-fashion model teenage daughter, Night, back to the family home in the tiny mountain southern Utah town of Cloud. Faith no longer knows how tomanage her medical practice, the daughter growing up too fast, or her own grief-stricken emotional well being. Escape is never easy. While Night worries she may be pregnant and stuck in Cloud forever, Faith struggles to land on her feet before falling inlove with Will, a veteran forest firefighter and owner of the local cafe. Faith and Night soon discover Cloud is not as backward as first thought. While Faith treats cancer-stricken downwinders and the black-sheep scion of a Mormon family with AIDS, Night links with some surprising local teenagers. As wild-fires ignite Utah's drought-weakened forests, crew-chief Will faces the fight of his life when flames threaten his beloved town of Cloud. Tempered by the beauty of nature and the prospect of new love, Faith begins to repair her heart, her life, and her relationship with Night.