The saga of one woman's extraordinary journey through the maelstrom of this century, Choices tells the story of Melinda Kregg, who leads a safe life built on "guilt-edged" securities in coal. As a Red Cross volunteer, Melinda aids the blacklisted miners involved in the bloody coal-mining strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, and is branded a Communist. Her innocence shattered, Melinda moves to other battlefields, tending to the social wound wherever it may be.