Diana Cummings is from Toronto, so when she needed a quiet, slow-paced place to finish her movie script and consider her failing marriage, Nova Scotia’s Rossignol Valley seemed the perfect retreat. She couldn’t have been more wrong! After answering an advertisement in the local newspaper, Diana becomes the “Extraordinary Secretary” for the Prince County Woodlot Owners Association—a rag-tag gang of woodsmen and farmers embroiled in a losing battle over the government’s forestry policies.