The story of a young man from Highland Scotland who arrives mysteriously in a lonely glen to begin building a house. We have no knowledge of where he has come from or what his past may have been. Only when his simple house is built at last - with his own hands - does he go down the glen to find the little community on his doorstep. And there in the pub he meets the gold-haired Anna, daughter of the blacksmith, and at once falls for her. This then is the story of the life that they build in Glen Lyon, but that is only the beginning. Because it is only now we begin to learn of the world he has left behind him, and of the world into which Anna has been born. Their idyllic start is by no means set to last: their struggle to find one another and discover their true selves has only just begun.