Marty finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, and tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Mandy Hope and her friend James try to figure out the best way to help when a stray cat moves with her newborn kittens into a trailer on the campsite of Sam Western--a man with no patience for animals.