Caprice owns and operates her own animal sanctuary and is called the "shrew" by the people in town because she is so cold to everyone. One day she comes across a man who is hurt and being a vet she has to stitch his wounds up herself. As Tom's wounds start to heal he and Caprice's physical attraction ignites until they find themselves lovers out in the big wilderness. Their physical encounters peak and just as you think they can't get enough, they take it even farther. Tom comes to realize he cannot leave this woman and go back to the big city. So in Caprice, Tom finds his own kind of sanctuary.