The Greens live in a sleepy Wisconsin town where Norman (Tom Irwin) works as a farmer, and Ingrid (Glenne Headly), a former pianist, now works as a choir director. Their daughter, Rachel (Madeline Zima), is a gifted violinist. The eccentric Ingrid has always had many conflicts with the town's more conventional citizens, and Rachel worries that she is also becoming an oddball like her mother. A local concert, however, helps the family and the town come together in harmony.