In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a yearlong honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant charmer promises to be less windfall than money pit. And the town itself, with its polyglot army of miners striving to extricate themselves from the stranglehold of the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems like the couple's fast-diminishing finances, on the verge of implosion.