A self-educated freethinking woman takes in her adult daughter and grandchild, and encourages them both to follow their dreams. While the grandmother is busy with an ongoing feud with a local doctor, the two younger women overcome their distrust of men and begin to fall in love - one with a lawyer, the other with a wounded soldier. Period drama set in the 1930s, with Gena Rowlands, Mimi Rogers, Susan May Pratt and Kenneth Mitchell