The daughter of wealthy parents, charming and spoiled by the delights of civilization, Tess Harper, abandoned by a fateful coincidence to a secluded farm in provincial Kansas a century ago, comes face to face with many inconveniences and troublesome misunderstandings, and most importantly - with the arrogant and stubborn Joseph Maguire and his two orphaned nieces. The rudeness of alien morals and customs, the arrogant ridicule of the owner make her passionately dream of any opportunity to return to her usual life, but, once finding herself in the arms of Joseph, she experienced a fabulous pleasure that made her heart shrink in fear at the thought of the inevitable separation. What fate has in store for her - peaceful happiness in the rural wilderness, or painful memories of such a close, but, alas, unattainable passion...