Skyward

Ella Majors has reached the end of her patience with emergency room work and is unsure what comes next. She takes a short-term post as caregiver for Marion Henderson, a five-year-old living with juvenile diabetes who is anxious about her new surroundings.

Once Ella settles into the isolated household, she senses that the unhappiness there runs deeper than the girl's illness. Marion's father, Harris Henderson, is a single parent who runs a sanctuary where he nurses injured wild birds of prey back to health. He seems far more at ease with the birds in his care than with his own daughter.

The timeless landscape of the South Carolina coast and the birds at the sanctuary slowly begin to ease the emotional wounds of everyone there. Then a troubled mother unexpectedly comes back, putting the new trust and budding love between the characters to the test and bringing both the real dangers and the thrilling beauty of living freely into view.