After three years spent in an asylum because her husband declared her insane, Lily Henchard (guest star Melinda Dillon) returns to be reunited with her daughter, only to find that her own child is afraid of her.

Sara is kidnapped by a backwoods trapper (guest star Victor French) who takes the frightened teacher to his mountain hut for a purpose she had never imagined. Confronted by the rough mountaineer's obvious intelligence, Sara forgets her terror as she learns of his painful past and the reason he has brought her to his wilderness clearing.