An overweight, timid fifteen-year-old boy and his popular fourteen-year-old sister begin to overcome their guilt over their father's death and reconnect with each other and their emotionally-distant mother when they accompany her on a two-week speaking tour.
In 1946 Mandy feels trapped on her stern Aunt Bess's northern Ohio sheep farm, but as time goes on she finds herself getting involved with helping to tend the sheep.