In which a languid June day unfolds over Eagle County, inviting Charity Royall to revisit the shadowy edges of her origins with the appearance of Liff Hyatt, a taciturn woodsman whose ties to her past stir a curious unrest. As Charity contemplates the wild Mountain and shares its mysteries with Lucius Harney, an artist companion, the landscape of her own identity begins to take on a more vivid and intricate hue, tinted by both defiance and a newfound openness.