Two children meet by accident and find young love only to be denied. James is the fifteen-year-old son of a horse trainer. Mary Lynn Carlyle is the youngest daughter of a wealthy plantation owner Rupert Carlyle. James is exiled to England by Rupert for disobeying his demands that he stay away from Mary. When James returns to Charleston, South Carolina, he is a man of wealth, and the love affair begins anew, only to be stopped by the War Between the States. James is wounded at Gettysburg and loses his memory. Join in the five year journey James must make to rediscover his past and to find out if he is dreaming or does Mary really exist.