Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York working as a ladys maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband John to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland & caught up in the civil war. Nevertheless Ellie is extremely happy & fully embraces her sophisticated new life. When her father dies she must return home but she intends to sort her affairs quickly & then return to her beloved America. But once home her sense of duty kicks in & she decides painfully that she must stay to look after her mother & resume her marriage. Ellie is suddenly thrown into the simple rural life she believed she had grown out of