2. Resume: At Cold Mountain, a small town in North Carolina, arrive a father and a daughter( Kidman). Inman(Law) meets Ada(Kidman), though they speak little. At the onset of war between the North and the South, Inman leaves for the war. The war lasts for 3 long years. The South has lost it, and the soldiers who try to return are considered traitors and are ordered to be killed by the home-guards. Inman embarks on the journey to return to Ada. Through dangerous encounters, Inman returns to Ada to be with her for only a day. The home-guards who have ruthlessly killed the families that stayed behind to claim their property, are set to die through Inman's hands. He looses his life too. Ada gives birth to a baby girl and continues to live in Cold Mountain .