Following the death of her family, Ada Watershaw finds herself trapped in a marriage of torment and isolation. With only her cruel husband Colin for company, Ada begins to lose herself in the turmoil of her new reality.After the war, Grant Ross, a blacksmith, begins to build a new life in the colonies. Despite having learned to live with his misery, it seems his tortured past has followed him across the ocean from Scotland, and he cannot escape it...