Beautiful and beguiling Allison Waverley has grown up helping her brother Jim run their farm, helped by their good friend Tommy Calvert, while their father occupies himself as the town drunk. When their little Australian community is visited by English aristocrat Phillip Ashfield and the boys go off to join the army because war has broken out in Europe, the life Allison expected to live is turned upside down. The "wild oats" sown ruin lives and cause repercussions that reverberate will into the next generation, while Allison finds help and a lasting love from an unexpected source.