Born out of wedlock, Hannah Boyle (Siobhan Flynn) is forced to live with the father she never knew after her mother's death. Her stepmother (Jill Baker), who sees the girl only as evidence of infidelity, is determined to make her life miserable. Hannah eventually escapes this hostile home by marrying the local butcher, only to find another tormentor in his mother. Are happiness and love ever to be in her destiny?