Thirty years after strong hands pulled him from the wreckage of his parents' station wagon, Ryan Brooks returns to Wyoming to thank the dying rancher for saving his life. When a deathbed confession sets Ryan on a search for the truth of what really happened the day his parents died, he unearths a long-buried secret that leads to a mountain cave in Northern Italy and a dangerous love affair between a haunted young German soldier and the woman who would become the rancher's wife.