Elizabeth went to the West to teach children in the new one -class children of the settlers in the borderland. Fate brought her into the way of the "cognac" Wynn Delanyy, a member of the northwest driving police, and the two -sided flare resulted in the wedding. For Elizabeth it means going where the husband gets a placement. She knew it would be somewhere north, but she had no idea how lonely and difficult life there was waiting for her, originally an urban woman from the east. She seems to her that her only certainty are love for Wynn and faith in God. Will it be enough?