In the shadow of a mountain sits the town of Frank, a prospering mining community rich with optimistic folks arriving by the trainload every day. Unlike everyone else, Beth is counting the days until she leaves. Enrolled in a West Coast medical school, she aims to be part of the social change for women, and her father has worked very hard to give her the opportunity to do so. He will do everything in his power to make sure that nothing stands in his daughteras way, even if it means forbidding her to be with the free-spirited coal-miner Beth has fallen in love with. Despite her fatheras rigid confines and expectations, the young lovers are determined to leave the town of Frank to start a life togethera]if only fate will let them. Beneath the Mountain was inspired by the Frank Slide, North Americaas worst landslide.