As a civil war looms in the United States, Robert Richards, the son of a wealthy plantation owner, is sent to live in England by his mother, in order to protect him from his father's abuse. There, he settles into a more peaceful life in a large manor house, situated across a field from an orphanage where Mary an Irish girl whose parents died in a fire, waits desperately hoping for a chance to experience love once more. Across the Isle in Ireland...