Trouble simmers in a small Pacific Northwest town when generation of secrets collide. Hannah, the daughter of the largest berry farmer in the county, searches for her voice after her twin sister dies from cancer. She jumps into the controversy around immigrant worker a the farm, and naively causes further problems. Her boyfriend Luis, forced to live without his deported family, seeks his place within the American dream. His elderly friend Joseph, an undocumented immigrant from Russian, emerges from seclusion to confront an old vendetta and protect his mushroom cure for cancer from sinister forces. Part coming of age, part political intrigue, Founding Stones questions what it means to be a citizen of the world.