In a failed to remember pocket of Southern Ohio where American production as well as possibility are running out, an identified young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Together with her older bro, Ruth Avery signs up with an unsafe scrap steel crew in order to pay her method. With each other, they spend one harsh winter months functioning the scrap lawns during the day and also taking valuable steel from the when thriving factories by evening. With her objective visible, Ruth discovers that the best expense of an education and learning for a lady like her may be more than she imagined, as well as she quickly discovers herself torn in between an appealing future and also the household she would certainly leave behind.