At the end of World War II, Grant Person abandons his family's ranch on the Great Plains for a fishing boat on the Atlantic, only to be drawn back by his mother's death. Grant's father has mysteriously disappeared, and his brother, Max, a lifelong rival, departs the day Grant returns, leaving him with a sickly flock and a pile of debt. When Max returns a year later with a young woman named Sophie, a contest of wills ensues, reviving ghosts that Grant had hoped were long banished from the homestead.