Seventeen year old Marilla Eckert has been in love with Langdon Prescott, her family's hired hand, since she was fourteen years old. Determined to win him, she's blissfully unaware of the secret passion he feels for her older sister Delia. But when Delia weds a longtime beau, Lang settles for Marilla and marries her anyway, despite his continued longing and intent to someday win her sister away from her husband. It isn't long before Marilla realizes where Lang's devotion truly lies, yet she presses on, giving everything she has to offer, convinced she can still gain his love. Then America steps into the Great War. The men are sent a world away to fight, and Marilla's cares, coupled with the lack of her husband's favor, finally wear her thin. When heartache and disaster strike on every front, and Marilla's hour of need leads her elsewhere for comfort, will all of them wind up too broken to ever find their hearts' true homes?