At Seaworth Farms, established in 1945, the owners are slammed by a fall harvest delayed by warm weather. Beets have to come out of the ground cold so they don’t rot while sitting in the beet heap.

It’s all about psychology, tunneling deep into the troubled brain of Elise, who is losing her grip as she and boyfriend Tom toil on a sugar beet farm in fictional Robber’s Bluff, Minnesota.