CEO Philipp Dalmain can't keep his family's New York Highlands textile factory profitable, actually would prefer to run a bookshop with his lover. The now controlling investor, Robert Grant Emerson, ordered an independent consultancy to decide whether to close it down, which would ruin the whole town. Secretly around himself, he starts a romantic relationship with the consultant, Jennifer 'Jenny' Porter, who is inspired to an alternative by certain locals' compatible hobbies, while her NYC fiancé, real estate agent Henry Turner, has his own plan for the firm estate.