Forty six year old Anna and her nineteen year old daughter Lisa are uprooted from a peaceful social life in Boston by their husband and father to go west and start a new life for themselves but this vision is suddenly altered when Anna's husband falls under the painted lips charm of a small town saloon girl. Betrayal, illness, abandonment, theft, rape and finally both mother and daughter experiencing romance as they are forced out on their own to fend for themselves in a new land is the case study of two strong independent women.