Kathryn Cushman

Struggling to count her blessings in spite of exhaustion, Julie leaps at a chance to spend a summer in Amish country to help her domestic diva sister-in-law with a reality television program, an opportunity that forces Julie to confront the pervasiveness of the cameras, her sister-in-law's perfectionism and her views about family life.

Grace Graham returns to her small hometown of Shoal Creek, Tenn., after being entreated by her sister to pull some family duty by staying with their father, whom Grace dislikes, after he has surgery. Grace's belief in an all-natural lifestyle includes her refusal to vaccinate her four-year-old son, Dylan, who contracts measles shortly after he and his mother arrive in Tennessee. Grace then comes to see the consequences of many of her choices.