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With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried emotions of sudden death of Faith’s mother years ago, and learn to be a family again. Like the Prodigal story, Heart of the Country is a tale of a father’s unconditional love. He simply wants a relationship with his children, and once that relationship is restored, he begins to create healing for his broken daughter. Her marriage has to be rebuilt, her belief in herself, and her peace with her mother’s death all come together through the quiet, selfless guidance of her loving father. The novel, written by Rene Gutteridge from the original screenplay by filmmaker John Ward, takes us from the glamour of Manhattan to the open beauty of the fields of rural Columbus County, North Carolina as the timeless tale of the Prodigal Son is reborn!

한 여자의 남편이자 한 아이의 아빠로서 성실한 삶을 살고 있는 커티스. 하지만 어느 날부터인가 시작된 악몽은 평온했던 그의 일상을 뒤흔든다. 거대한 폭풍이 밀려오는 악몽은 현실 깊숙이 침투해 커티스를 괴롭히고, 그의 이상 행동을 이해하지 못하는 아내 사만다와 동료들은 그를 외면하기에 이른다. 그럼에도 커티스는 폭풍으로부터 가족을 지켜내야 한다는 사명감으로 뒷마당에 방공호를 짓기 시작하는데…