When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community.

Determined to get married today at any cost without telling her parents Kristie Wynne borrows her mother's car and drives through the desert where she almost runs over a catholic priest and has an encounter with the police that lands her in a small desert town jail.