Naïve yet idealistic college graduate Tabatha Dearstone joins a government program as a welfare worker, and then plunges her car off an icy road into a freezing river in the mountains of Western North Carolina. She finds herself living a year-long nightmare-her "rescuer," handsome young mountain man Rally Fox, is a sadistic, murderous moonshiner who rapes her and forces her into marriage. Tabatha, whose "citified" ways earn her the name "City" from the mountain folk, triumphs at last when she risks death to protect her only ally, an eight year-old orphan whose life is more precious than her own.
Naïve yet idealistic college graduate Tabatha Dearstone joins a government program as a welfare worker, and then plunges her car off an icy road into a freezing river in the mountains of Western North Carolina. She finds herself living a year-long nightmare-her "rescuer," handsome young mountain man Rally Fox, is a sadistic, murderous moonshiner who rapes her and forces her into marriage. Tabatha, whose "citified" ways earn her the name "City" from the mountain folk, triumphs at last when she risks death to protect her only ally, an eight year-old orphan whose life is more precious than her own.