A young woman of the city finds love, forgiveness and a deeply personal relationship with God as a teacher on the plains of Montana.
It is 1890 and Susannah Parker has grown up in the sheltered household of Dr George Parker and his wife Louise in the refined society of St Paul, Minnesota. All she has ever known is the love and caring of her parentss but she is shocked and saddened when on her 17th birthday they reveal to her that she is really their adopted child. Her birth mother, Pauline had died when Susannah was only a few days old and had given Susannah into the care of the Parkers, a loving Christian couple who were childless. Before Pauline died she wrote her newborn daughter a letter telling her of her birth family, the sad events that had torn them apart and of the town of Wolf Point where she had grown up. Now Susannah is determined to find her grandfather and learn about the family she never knew. Accepted for the position of school teacher in the little town Susannah travels to Montana and finds a path through the heartache of a broken family and her own first love into the warmth and forgivenss of a personal relationship with God.