Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, a ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.

When her boyfriend is killed, Susan Slade, already pursued by two other young men, is left a pregnant teenager. Her parents offer to pass the baby off as their own after it is born, but can Susan ultimately deny her own child, even if revealing the truth means giving up a second chance at love?