A story of female empowerment, determination and desire in early 20th century Wales.

Winter, 1904, and feisty twenty-one-year old Ellen has been summoned back from her new life in Hoboken, New Jersey, to the family farm on windswept Gower, in a last bid to prevent the impending death of her alcoholic father. On her return, she finds the family in disarray. Ailing William is gambling away large swathes of Thomas land; frustrated Eleanor is mourning the husband she once knew; and Ellen''s younger twin brothers face difficult choices. Ellen, tasked with putting her family''s lives in order, finds herself battling one impossible decision after another.