After catching the attention of a senior broker at her firm named Eddie Timball, Callie Rustan finds herself entangled in a scheme to defraud their clients that she cannot refuse. After she and Eddie are caught, Callie is put on house arrest and relocated someplace in the southeast. The federal marshal in charge of her case, a man named Fred who befriends Callie, is relocated and replaced by a woman named Margaret Bryan. While working as a manager for a shop in a local mall, Callie is lonely, angry, and wracked with guilt for her involvement in this fraud scheme which directly funded violent and murderous organized criminals. Callie ventures out to a local historic farm where men and women demonstrate old techniques of farmers and independent producers, such as churning butter and blacksmithing. Callie buys an antique anvil to hear the clear bell-like sound it produces when a hammer strikes it—when Callie was younger, she had wanted to play the bells, but her mother pushed her to study piano instead. After work every day, she rings the anvil in the garage for a cathartic release of her anguish, practicing church hymns. One day, Callie receives a frantic call from Marshal Margaret Bryan, telling her to go to a police station and wait for her there. Moments after the call, the former federal marshal Fred shows up to Callie’s house to abduct her after cutting a deal with dangerous defrauded investors who want to punish Callie. The deal would alleviate the financial strain Fred’s divorce is putting on him. Callie throws a hammer at him and flees, but is caught in a tussle with Fred. Callie bludgeons him with a hammer, and is placed back in the safety of Marshal Margaret Bryan’s custody. The marshal informs Callie that she will be relocated again and given a new identity.