Considered an outsider by the residents of Cutter Gap, Christy is beloved as a teacher but begins to stir up conflict with her pleas for progress and stories of an outside world. When a free-spirited woman aviator crash lands in Cutter Gap, the attention is taken off Christy until a series of robberies occur. Believing that a newly built road brought in the thieves, Christy is blamed. Faced with a series of setbacks, Christy contemplates returning home to North Carolina.
