When the Black Plague wipes out the Tanner family save for daughter Edith she feels that God has dealt her an unfair hand. Edith struggles to hold on to her father's land and small subsitance farm. Having no dowry and thus unable to arrange a proper marriage the community and the Church would see her fail. When a court case is launched against a certain Mr Grantt in her name she ends up in a web of deceit which does not help improving her lot.
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