The year was 1942. That spring Lt. Ryan Benson had been given the assignment to build the curved wooden bridge over the Kiskatinaw River. The U.S. Army was building the Alaska Highway from Dawson Creek, B.C. Canada, to Alaska through some 1500 miles of wilderness. Ryan's job with his command was to build the rst major bridge or obstacle before the rest of the highway could go forward. The Allies needed an overland route to Alaska to ward off the threat of an Alaskan invasion by the Japanese during WWII. It would be one of the greatest single engineering feats in the modern era, utilizing the heroic efforts of more than 11,000 men and their equipment under the most extreme weather conditions.
In the current day, Edward and Sara Toolson owned a large ranch in Rolla, B.C. that was having nancial problems. It was apparent that the Toolson's would lose their farm without a miracle that could somehow save them. A family journal from 1942 provided the miracle, but only after a continuation of a 1942 sinister plot, and the cost of human life.