After six generations of Iowan farming, Mack and his family are forced to give it up if they want to barely hold onto their house, but can they keep hold of themselves? Rita Mae Barnes had been trying to cope with the loss of her husband and one of her sons by trying to keep the farm going. Mack, her surviving son, is back from a psychiatric ward stay for clinical depression. His wife Jodie has become so desperate, she can’t recognize herself anymore while her daughter has turned to religion for her problems and her son to goth music and rebellion.