The
 film, direc ted 
b
y John McPhail  (
Anna and the A  pocalypse), te
lls the story of Dinah Little, a no-
non
sense, curmudgeonly farmer, and 
Charli
e, the unloved
niece  who Dinah be
grudgingly takes in 
after disc overing her i  n an orpha nage. Din
ah' s farm i 
s in the self-procl aim 
ed "Pumpkin Capital 
 of the World" where the bigges
t  ev ent of the yea
r is a high-stakes, cutthro at g  iant-pum
 pk in-gro wing contest wi
th an enormous ca
sh prize. Charlie, who has a special bond with plants, decides to  ent er t
he comp
et ition where she and
 the

othe r pumpkin
growers face s
abotage and a genetically e ngi
neered rival. As she n ur tures  her pu mpkin  ‘Peter’ and watches him grow, so does 
a bond bet ween Dina
 h and Ch
arlie.