They are running from their tragic past - two adults and one child. A young teacher, Janet Matthews, lost both her parents and her beloved fiancé overnight, suffocated in carbon monoxide... A successful landowner, owner of a huge ranch, Jason Stewart, comes from a difficult childhood in in which the mother ran away from the family, taking one of her sons with her. This first experience of female treachery seemed to have burned a lifelong mark on the character and fate of Jason, who had forgotten how to respect and trust women. Well, and little shy Susan... Her parents - Jason Stewart's brother and daughter-in-law - died in a car accident, and she is forced to live with a harsh misanthropic uncle . But the girl did not become bitter - on the contrary, she turned out to be wiser than two proud adults, inflamed with frantic passion for each other, but locked in the desert of spiritual loneliness. She helps them and herself to emerge from the darkness of the past into the light of their present common happiness - she helps with the power of her loving, childish heart, open to goodness...