When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired she moves back to her Nevada hometown where a severe drought may force her aging mother Ruth (Angie Dickinson) to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth sort out old differences the erstwhile reporter and her ex-beau Walt (David Lee Smith) begin to suspect the casino of manipulating the town's water supply. Stephen Bridgewater directs this drama.