A smart, kind tale about a young single mother and her ten-year-old daughter who overcome the challenges of rural poverty and find the support they require to survive is set against the vast open beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Skye, the intelligent daughter of Laurel Hill, and she have always been each other's everything. The two are located on Lake Superior where the closest hospital is a helicopter trip away and the local school only has classes of four students. Though they struggle to make ends meet thanks to Laurel's inconsistent employment, their intense love for one another seems to be able to keep them warm even on the chilliest evenings. What else are they lacking? One otherwise normal afternoon, their landlord decides to evict them in favor of a more profitable summer rental, and, without any warning, they are pushed farther to the margins. Suddenly it feels like the independence that has defined them is a liability. And when a dangerous incident threatens to separate them, Laurel and Skye must forever choose--will they leave the place they love and the hardscrabble life they've built to move closer to civilization, or risk everything to embrace the emptiness and wildness that has defined them? What follows is an uplifting, profoundly moving story about a mother and daughter fighting for each other, against all odds, as they learn to build community and foster the resilience that will keep them alive.