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.

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.