When the beautiful pearl-fisher, Effie Williamson, arrives in a rural
Scottish village, with her grandparents and siblings, the residents
react in many different ways, from hospitable warmth to outright
rejection, exacerbated when the religious, gentle Gavin Hamilton takes
the family into his home, the Old Manse. A difficult love blossoms
gradually between Effie and Gavin under the scrutiny of the watchful
locals.