On a ten-thousand-acre ranch in Kansas, Belle Burder and her daughter, Charley, vie for attention, recognition, and love, as if theres not enough room in this huge expanse for both of them. Belle is the widow of "the richest bastard in Kansas," and if she cant charm her way to what she wants, shell get it somehow. Shes eccentric, manipulative, outrageous.
Charley was born wanting what she wasnt supposed to want: horses, spring calving, flying the plane, driving the combine. In her late twenties, Charley runs a ranch half the size of a township, but Belle knows where shes fragile, and Belle plays dirty.