A pair of folklorist sisters in the 1940’s find themselves at odds when Ruth, the younger, reveals her intent to leave the nomadic song-collecting life to get married. The elder, Loretta, finds this difficult to accept, especially since Ruth is marrying into the Campbell family, whose songs the sisters have spent years recording and whose matriarch, Alma, does not approve of Loretta’s somewhat aggressive approach to folk song preservation. When an argument arises over the use and recording of the family’s traditional wedding song, Loretta finds herself torn between her passion for her work and her love for her sister.
