Missy Wright lives with her widowed mother and crippled aunt in genteel poverty, victim to the family's rule of inheritance: the men take it all. It seems Missy's life is destined to be dreary. But then a stranger arrives in town. A divorcee from Sydney. And she opens Missy's eyes to the possibility...

Missy Wright lives with her widowed mother and crippled aunt in genteel poverty, victim to the family's rule of inheritance: the men take it all. It seems Missy's life is destined to be dreary. But then a stranger arrives in town. A divorcee from Sydney. And she opens Missy's eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.