In the final years of the American Civil War, a young farm girl finds her world torn apart when a vicious attack leaves her homeless and orphaned. Donning the uniform of a Confederate soldier, she joins the army, posing as a man, in hopes of locating the raiders who killed her parents. Now living as "Andy," she must protect her secret from her own comrades and risk discovery as experiences life on the battlefield, a growing attraction to her commanding officer, and her own journey to come to terms with her loss and her place in a changing society, even as she hunts down her attackers.