In a small Kansas town, a woman named Freda toils the land with her husband and seems to constantly bring bountiful yields. She rides around town on a horse and passes out a collection of fruits and nuts to the local kids and always seems to be more active during the harvest season. One morning she comes into town with a baby and says that she was born in the night. The daughter is a pale and strange child who follows alongside her mother during her walks around town and always brings in the first flowers of spring. One winter a man named March comes into town with his cattle and settles next to Freda’s land. He helps the townspeople breed their cattle and is associated with the bountifulness of Freda. One day, a girl watches in the thicket as Freda’s daughter is running and the girl sees March chasing her and tackle Freda’s daughter in the field. The girl is afraid and runs home and the next morning the townspeople find that March, his cattle, and Freda’s daughter are all gone. Freda becomes distraught and at night goes door to door asking anyone if they know where her daughter is. When spring comes that year, the flowers do not bloom and Freda is seen crying often at the well. The sun scorches the earth and the townspeople are afraid that their crops won’t grow. One day, however, Freda’s daughter is seen in town again and suddenly Freda is back to her normal self and the crops begin to grow again. That autumn, after harvest, March returns to the town and Freda gives her daughter back to him as he travels west. This process seems to become a cycle, until one year Freda’s daughter gets sick in the Kansas town. The girl who had seen March chasing Freda’s daughter, is now a young woman and rides in a train with Freda’s daughter to go and see if they can cure her at a town nearby. The train makes a stop and they get off at a diner and the young woman remarks about a bull they saw that looks like it belonged to March. Freda’s daughter does not respond much and they get back on the train and ride into the city.