When Sara tries to attract two farm boys to her school, she finds herself becoming worried about their mother, a troubled woman of obvious breeding who left a cultured life in the East to raise a family on the frontier far from other people. lnga Swenson guest stars as Henrietta Lindquist, who is wasting away from years of desolation in an earthen house far from town, until Sara lures her into Independence to hear music for the first time in years.

When Angelo Lusco, an expert in the field of dynamite comes to town to blast open a new vein of a silver mine, he threatens to sweep Sara off her feet as well. Henry Darrow plays the colorful, romantic, opera-singing Italian who at first flirts with Sara, and then falls deeply in love with her. Reciprocating his feelings, she becomes personally involved and deeply affected by the dangerous nature of his work.