The narrator of this charming, sometimes challenging tale is a sensitive, bright young woman trying to make her way as a governess to the children of a wealthy widower. Her career takes an interesting twist when her employer falls in love with her widowed-mother. She struggles to adjust to each new situation with grace and poise. Her efforts take on a new purpose as the two families, from disparate backgrounds, join forces and begin the, not entirely glitch-free, process of becoming a new family.