Rainbow Dash, ace pilot in the United States Air Force and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for "actions above and beyond the call of duty," returns home to the small town of High Pointe with a ruined leg and a heavily-bruised ego.

Months of physical therapy and back-to-back surgeries had more or less saved the limb, though Rainbow Dash knew her dreams of becoming a soccer star were forever crushed, along with her hopes of a swift recovery.

Her personal doubt and loneliness are not just her imagination. The pain of abandonment closes in on all sides, when two specific people from her past show up and start to bring her back.