You can take the girl out of the town... but can you put her back again?

 

Wanting to break free from the small-town small-mindedness of her past, Fern chooses to take a job as a live-in nanny, housekeeper, and tutor, in the city mansion of the wealthy Silverson family. When she finds out that her mother, Maria, has had a stroke, Fern travels back to her childhood hometown of Orbeda, a 5-hour drive with her brother towards 2,500 people that she left behind for a reason.

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As soon as Fern arrives in Orbeda, she has to defend herself against her own family, who do not take her, or her job, seriously at all. With old family tensions flaring and her self-worth floundering, in a town where everyone knows everyone, Fern has no choice but to face her past. Then, when Maria's health takes a turn for the worse, Fern finds herself doing the very thing that she was trying to avoid, and what she ran away from in the first place.