For generations, Ellie Hostetler\'s family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue.
Can she and her family find the courage to face a future unlike any they could have imagined?.
Suddenly, it feels as if everything in Ellie\'s world is shifting, and the plans she has held so dear seem increasingly uncertain.
In contrast to Evan, Sol is a conscientious objector, and despite Ellie\'s attraction to Menno, she finds herself drawn to Sol\'s steady presence as they work together in the orchard.
As Evan departs for boot camp, Ellie finds herself confiding her disappointment in Sol Bontrager, the brother of her best friend and cousin to her new beau, Menno.
The faraway war that has caused so much turmoil and grief among their Englisher neighbors threatens to touch much too close to home.
Yet when Evan\'s draft number is called up in the lottery for the Vietnam War, the family is shocked to learn he has not sought conscientious objector status, despite their Old Order Amish belief in nonresistance.
For generations, Ellie Hostetler\'s family has tended their Lancaster County orchard, a tradition her twin brother, Evan, will someday continue
