Christmas on the vast American plains holds little appeal for four women struggling to find a warm place to belong. Estelle is paralzed by grief over a fallen soldier and balks at holiday preparations - Kathleen thinks she made a mistake accepting a teaching position away from home - Ivy abhors the Nebraska town she and family now call home and longs to flee back to East, to the security of the familiar - Lucinda mourns the loss of her home to the...