Giggling and talking, they take a short cut up a hill when the panicked horses start to slip and slide backwards down the slick hill, tumbling, girl over horse, crashing to the bottom, landing in the middle of a road. Just then a large truck appears, horn blaring and brakes screeching. Grace's horse, Pilgrim, rears up.
This is the beginning of a marvelous and touching story.
The accident kills Judith and leaves Grace lost and devastated with one leg amputated and Pilgrim terribly damaged and traumatized.
After the accident, Grace's somewhat cold and workaholic mother, Annie, refuses to have Pilgrim put down, sensing that her daughter and her daughters horse seem linked and that both need to be saved from their pain and rescued from their despair.
Annie locates a rural "horse whisperer" in Montana, a man that can "speak" to and restore wounded horses and sets out with her daughter and her horse on a long journey to his vast Montana ranch to try to bring back a spark of life in them both.
This is a lovely story of love and redemption, and I highly recommend it.
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