Isolated on the frontier of colonial Deerfield, Massachusetts, Sarah yearns to know what lies beyond the distant hills - beyond her strict Puritan life. What she does not know is that her family lies dangerously exposed to those with ambitions to rid the land of the English. Lurking amidst the majestic beauty, which captivates her imagination, their enemies, the French and their Native allies, await the opportunity to strike. With the enemy at hand, Sarah learns what lies beyond, but it is nothing as she imagined or dreamed, for she awakens into a nightmare. Inspired by true events.