Unattached and pregnant with a dashing actor's child, 19-year-old Elizabeth (Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh) avoids a shameful public scandal by marrying a widower she doesn't love (Dermot Crowley) in this made-for-television movie based on the novel by Deirdre Purcell. But is Elizabeth strong enough to endure the pressures of becoming a first-time mother, learning to raise her stepchildren and living on a remote Irish peninsula?