Rich family saga of love, devotion, deceit and adultery. Josi Evans runs off with the local school mistress, Miriam leaving behind wealth and esteem to find a life of love and human contact.

Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.