In the unforgiving autumn of 1951, Geoffrey Stanton races against time arriving too late as his fiancée Elsa dies in childbirth, then is unceremoniously buried in a remote grave in the Uintah mountains.
His baby daughter Nova, enters the world in the same breath that her mother leaves, only to be stolen away in an illegal adoption engineered by a grandfather whose power casts a long, merciless shadow in their religious community. The old man’s threats are clear: Stanton’s presence is unacceptable and he will never see the child again.
Devastated, Stanton returns to England, a hollow shell of the man he once was. Years later, amid a botanical expedition deep in the Amazon’s emerald darkness, he stages his own death, vanishing from the world that had once again betrayed him.
Slipping back into Utah under an alias, he is driven by a single burning purpose - to find his daughter – if only to know her from afar. His eventual path tracks north into the wild heart of Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains, where he finds refuge on a remote ranch owned by a talented woman artist. Her family’s roots stretch back to the hardy pioneers who carved out a rugged existence along the Bozeman Trail. Her world is paint, sky, and stubborn roots—offering him both camouflage and, perhaps, a new beginning.
All the while, Nova now grown, is haunted by fragments written into her father’s surviving journals, and personal records left behind in a small town bank vault. Living up to her intellectual resourcefulness, she and her brother Cyril analyze evidence with the expectation of uncovering the truth. Circling across time and terrain, two souls draw closer. Will they find each other before the hour glass runs out?
His baby daughter Nova, enters the world in the same breath that her mother leaves, only to be stolen away in an illegal adoption engineered by a grandfather whose power casts a long, merciless shadow in their religious community. The old man’s threats are clear: Stanton’s presence is unacceptable and he will never see the child again.
Devastated, Stanton returns to England, a hollow shell of the man he once was. Years later, amid a botanical expedition deep in the Amazon’s emerald darkness, he stages his own death, vanishing from the world that had once again betrayed him.
Slipping back into Utah under an alias, he is driven by a single burning purpose - to find his daughter – if only to know her from afar. His eventual path tracks north into the wild heart of Wyoming’s Big Horn Mountains, where he finds refuge on a remote ranch owned by a talented woman artist. Her family’s roots stretch back to the hardy pioneers who carved out a rugged existence along the Bozeman Trail. Her world is paint, sky, and stubborn roots—offering him both camouflage and, perhaps, a new beginning.
All the while, Nova now grown, is haunted by fragments written into her father’s surviving journals, and personal records left behind in a small town bank vault. Living up to her intellectual resourcefulness, she and her brother Cyril analyze evidence with the expectation of uncovering the truth. Circling across time and terrain, two souls draw closer. Will they find each other before the hour glass runs out?
