A breakdown in health forced Barney Bray, a brilliant young engineer, to take up small scale farming. Wealthy Sandra Carson, after a road accident, undertakes to call at the farm to explain the nonappearance of the housekeeper whom he is expecting, and he mistakes her for that individual. Bored with too much leisure, Sandra does not enlighten him. Their love story if woven from their joint struggle to make the farm pay, but torn by his eventual discovery of her identity and wealth.