A woman living alone in a cabin in the Alps experiences flashbacks that give her connections with the natural world. As people grow wary of her odd behavior, some take matters into their own hands.

"The de Boer family are tobacco growers, working on terraces in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Life is hard, and the father, Augusto, occasionally supplements their income by smuggling tobacco across the border into Austria. Sometimes he takes his daughter Jole with him, and father and daughter journey together on the perilous route over the mountains. But Augusto mysteriously never returns from one of these trips, and Jole, driven to provide...