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Sarah Cain is happy with her urban townhouse, her BMW, her success as a real estate broker in Portland, Oregon. Her days are brimming over with e-mail, phone calls, appointments and closings, and that's just the way she likes it. The best thing about her self-absorbed existence is that she has broken free of the shadow of her controlling older sister, Ivy, a widow who lives with her five children in an Amish community in Lancaster County, Pa. Sarah, a nonbeliever, never supported Ivy's decision to embrace the Plain People. She considers it a type of punishment to keep the children from enjoying a normal American lifestyle. But it's none of her business, at least not until she receives word that Ivy has met an untimely death, and has named Sarah as her children's guardian. At first resentful that she must travel 3,000 miles to tend to some children who are essentially strangers, Sarah discovers that she appreciates a simpler way of life. She chafes, however, under Amish scrutiny and the expectations of five grieving orphans. Sarah endeavors to remain emotionally aloof from the children while trying to make decisions about their future a struggle, especially since the eldest looks and acts so much like Ivy.

Caitlin plays the role of Courtney. When Anna Mae (Danielle Chuchran), one of the orphaned children, is enrolled at a junior high, Courtney is asked by the principal to show Anna Mae around and be a friend to her. Courtney takes her on a tour, and introduces her to Amanda and Stacey, who like fashionable clothes and make-up. Anna Mae watches the other girls and their clothes and how they wear make up. When Courtney and Amanda (Whitney Lee) talk about how Anna Mae is going to be a total outcast if she continues to wear the clothes she wears, Anna Mae hears them and decides to abandon her Amish clothes and become more modern. Anna Mae is accepted by the girls and they become friends. However, all of this backfires when Anna Mae's older sister Lyddie, finds out and confronts her when she is at a wrestling match, with her friends, watching her brother Caleb.. (who also has gone against the Amish way, to be a wrestler on the team, behind his big sisters back).

"Saving Sarah Cain" is based on the Beverly Lewis novel, "The Redemption Of Sarah Cain".

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