 A small-town, country doctor ( Penelope Ann Miller  (qv)) has been a widow for two years but is still in love with her dead husband, Michael. Despite the best efforts of her father in law ( Barry Corbin  (qv)) to marry her off to the local eligible bachelors, she still remains so. The week-long county fair is approaching and her father in law traps her into an unfair deal involving the feeding of her bull and her attendance at the fair with a suitable escort. She decides to call his bluff by hiring a male escort ( Brett Cullen  (qv)) to attend the fair as her lover. However, things don t go quite according to plan as he smells a rat and investigates the new boyfriend and even worse the escort starts to fall in love with her! Things come to a head at the Bison Hall dance, the highlight of the fair, when the girlfriend ( Allison Hossack  (qv)) of the escort arrives in town and the escort forces her into making a choice between him and her dead husband Michael!