Dottie Hogan is divorced and depleted when she loads up her dog and four Hefty bags of clothes and heads back to North Georgia and the Quinn family lake house, where the promise of family and a gallery job beckon her like a moth to flame. Instead, she finds her childhood sanctuary has a massive culture chip on its Appalachian shoulders and her feisty Aunt Lo appears to be losing her feud with Fannie Fraser and the Citizens Against Virtually Everything when she closes her gallery and leaves town.

Before Lo goes, she gives Dottie the keys to the Red Arrow, a condemned hardware store, and says if Dottie fixes it, she can have it. Dottie can't get a loan, is tired of being alone, and knows nothing about using a drill, but when she spots a moonshine still, she decides on a new, if dissonant, direction in an evangelical town with little taste for liquor and tourism.

Dottie and a relatable cast of characters, including handsome Crawford Woody, who know plenty about damage and repair, unite against time and undeniable forces as they transform the Red Arrow into the first brewery in Bluff County—rebuilding each other along the way.