Explores the changing relationship between people and the land in northern New England, the collective choices that lead to urban sprawl, and stories of average citizens who are taking a stand against it: a seacoast farmer surviving in one of the fastest-growing parts of the region, a developer who is creating a New England village instead of a cookie-cutter subdivision, the citizens who revitalized a Main Street in New Hampshire, and an optimistic group of Vermont farmers who have reinvested in their farms.