-- A town marshal who finds himself dealing with dramatic social changes brought about by Prohibition, then the Great Depression.
-- Townspeople, many of German heritage, who are caught up in the biting stigma of a second world war instigated by Germany.
-- A love story between a farmer and his wife, Walter and Emma Bierkoff—a Catholic and a Lutheran, during a time when Catholics and Protestants were at war, too.
-- One common man’s ardent search to find an answer to the universal question: How does a just, loving God appropriate forgiveness for the most heinous and calamitous sins?