The Blackstone River Valley in 1918, the seat of the Industrial revolution, offers employment to hopeful immigrants.  This new life in America also comes with unexpected  danger and problems. While the Great War  moves toward its bloody end, the Spanish Flu ravages  the population in Massachusetts. .

How will Norwegian immigrants Trygve and Valle (rhymes with ‘Bali' ) Lee thrive and keep their faith in God as they face this danger and the fragility of life? Will the surgical skills of the 1920s keep Trygve alive? The family again meets fear head on in the cold waters of the North Atlantic on a perilous journey back to Norway, only to discover that the struggle to acclimate to American culture is not as difficult as returning to their family back in Norway.

The Lee family attempts to put down roots in small town America, far from family and cut off from their Norwegian community. Trygve struggles to purchase a home and unintentionally becomes the enforcer in their neighborhood of bootleggers. Valle must learn to deal with prohibition enforcers. Trygve and Valle find their marriage strained and their faith tested in the struggle for prosperity during the peak of the roaring twenties. The Lee children comically flourish as they traverse the conflict of cultures and befriend their ‘hillbilly’ neighbors.