Set in England in 1898.When Florence Dewhurst defies her wealthy but domineering and abusive, father regarding an arranged marriage to a man who is almost old enough to be her father, she elopes with Raymond Oakfield, the man she loves who is a tenant farmer on her father's estates.With her mother's blessing, Florence and Raymond go to the Reverend North and his wife, friends of her mother who take them in till they are able to be married.Once married they travel to Whitby where Raymond obtains work on a fishing fleet. But his heart is on the land. They settle into their life in Whitby....