Kitty Wright, the daughter of a poor farmer, too independent to fit into the behavior of a true southern lady, was considered the bride of the refined aristocrat Nathan Collins. But the nightmare of the Civil War threw the unfortunate girl into the dirty clutches of a scoundrel deserter. And there would be nowhere to look for salvation if it had not come from a completely unexpected direction - in the person of the courageous northern army officer Travis Coltrane...