A teacher in a small town who has almost given up on life, discovers a new passion when he meets the teenage daughter of a retired major. Based on the novel 'Farmer' by Jim Harrison.Joseph Svenden is a middle-aged school-teacher who lives on a farm with his dying mother. In his simple life there are no excitements, even in long-time relationship with a widow. However, when seventeen-year-old beauty enrolls in his class, Joseph would soon end up in her arms. After that, Joseph is torn between the passion and feeling that he is doing something wrong.