When Doty gave birth to Rose, she knew her daughter’s life, as well as her own, would be filled with hardship and sorrow. Suffering through America’s Great Depression and enduring the ravishes of the Dustbowl, poverty and pain were a constant everywhere; but Rose’s was a deeper kind of darkness. With a family dominated by drunkenness, abuse, and the aggression of an unloving father, Rose grows up feeling unloved and with a hopeless future.As she enters adulthood, Rose discovers that the God who comforted her after she had been abandoned in the desert is the same God that reached out to her now. Will she accept His gift of grace and finally forgive the man that stole her innocence, the man she called Father?