After a family fight over $10 for medicine—David is their sole earner and Blaire's earlier hospitalization drained savings—Blaire insists she no longer needs pills and volunteers to gather herbs. She asks David about a sunny hillside two miles out and hears Lawson Group plans to lease it and the village chief is guarding the land. As a traditional medicine expert, Blaire locates meadow fescue there, a rare herb she would have discovered decades later that could help Eason. The find brings hope but invites danger when someone shouts, "Hey! What are you doing?"