A young high-society woman dedicates herself to a teaching career. Her first assignment requires her to give up her privileged existence and learn to cope with a harder way of life when she moves to a remote prairie town, working in a school run by two indomitable widows. Period drama based on Janette Oke's novel, starring Maggie Grace, Lori Loughlin and Jean Smart.

Elizabeth Thatcher, a cultured young teacher in 1910, fears leaving her comfortable world in the city. But when she accepts a teaching position in a frontier town, she finds new purpose and love with a handsome Royal Canadian Mountie.