In a town she personifies Ouisie Pepper wrestles with her own defiance. Desperate to become the wife and mother her husband Hap demands Ouisie pours over a simple book about womanhood constantly falling short but determined to improve. <br><br>Through all that self-improvement Ouisie carries a terrible secret: she knows who killed Daisy Chance. As her children inch closer to uncovering the killer's identity and Hap's rages roar louder and become increasingly violent Ouisie has to make a decision. Will she protect her children by telling her secret? Or will Hap's violence silence them all? <br><br>Set on the backdrop of Defiance Texas Ouisie's journey typifies the choices we all face---whether to tell the truth about secrets and fight for the truth or bury them forever and live with the violent consequences.