Fate seems to haunt Laura Purcell from her very birth: from a young age she suffers from the cruelty of her father, a ruthless religious fanatic. Getting rid of parental power could be a marriage to the charming, handsome Nick Orlando, but soon after the wedding, Laura finds out that she got a drunkard and gambler as her husband. Abandoned by her dissolute husband, a young woman finds hope for happiness in the arms of the honest and courageous Will Adams, but the dark shadows of the past again thicken over the lovers...