Jude Conr's Idaho hometown is a place of strong values and high expectations. For those who fit into the local church's narrow confines, there's support and fellowship; however those who don't are faced with ostracism in this life and the continual threat of damnation in the next. Jude wants desperately to be saved, but he also feels a growing need to decide for himself how to live and who to love, leading him to question the church's teachings. Jude must search for his own path, even if it leads him far from everything he has ever kwn.