The year was 1882 Melonie Jobenson and her little sister Bonnie live with their father on a prairie in Colorado . They lived life by the day knowing nothing was promised. In Melonies world the only thing that mattered to her was her sister and hers safety but when a twister comes through she leads her sister to the shelter and locks the door leaving her father, who had been a drunk sense her mothers death, out in the fields she knows her life is about to get quiet a bit harder. At the time the reward seemed greater than the risk but now she's not so sure. Will she be able to protect her sister and create a new life or with the winds of time kill of the Jobenson family tree for good.