Noah has not seen his father for ten years. Shortly before his father dies, Noah makes the 3,000 mile journey to Mount Ararat but arrives too late, and has to bury his father at the foot of the legendary mountain. His tenderhearted brother still lives in his father's old village where he leads an unhappy marriage with his spirited wife, who thinks of her husband as a weakling. Noah tries to mediate, but where exactly will the best intentions of a man who left his village so long ago, who now nothing more than a stranger, lead?