Elspet Mary is happy to be living with her kind aunt and uncle after her mother and father die, but worries when the family decides to go to Upper Canada from Scotland to own their own farm.
Young Jeremy and Sarah learn to cope with their grief and drastically changed lifestyle during their father's battle with cancer, which forces their mother to sell their house and return to school full time.
Willow, abandoned by her mother on the streets of Vancouver and left to care for her difficult little brother Twig, is placed in the care of her estranged grandmother in Ontario, but is unsure whether she and Twig have truly found a home.