One day federal wildlife officer Edal Jones is able to handle humans smuggling rare creatures and killing most of them in the process; the next day she cannot. After watching a girl rescuing migratory birds that have knocked themselves out on the city's glass towers, Edal follows her to an auto-wrecker's yard in a wide ravine, and discovers a most unlikely sanctuary. Here, waifs and strays both human and animal find comfort and healing under the wing of the handsome proprietor, Guy Howell. But Guy's sanctuary is under attack from a different kind of lost soul, one on a mission to destroy the creatures that call the valley home.