Kachemak “Kache” Winkel

Kache is a 38-year-old man trapped in his tragic past. His mother, father, and brother died in a plane crash 20 years ago and he has never recovered. He feels hurt because his father never understood him, and guilty because they had quarreled the night before the plane crash. The last words he said to his father were "I hate you." Afterward, he abandoned his musical ambitions to be an accountant, but when he loses his job and returns to his hometown of Caboose, Alaska, he goes on a journey of self-discovery with the help of Nadia, the Russian woman living on his family's old homestead.

Nadia teaches Kache how to tend to the land, giving him a new sense of purpose in life. She also inspires him to start playing music again and opens his heart to the prospect of a deep romantic connection with another...