Jessica arrives at her newly married young aunt's as a high-spirited, fiery tempered child. Loved by many, carefully tended, she blossoms into womanhood. Life becomes rough as Helen, her mother, dies. Jessica tries filling the woman's shoes, hanging onto all that she believes to be true, hanging onto the thoughts of the boy with whom, in childhood, she had shared plenty of laughter, joy and enthusiasm. The one who has left town to join the army-Gideon...