Intriguing...strong women, as young as 13 years, herding their family's cows and goats in the summer pasture. Hoping the boys might visit them one weekend, the women and girls led a lonely, but exciting life of loneliness, interrupted occasionally by bears and wolves. Occasional visits by the village young men often led to the birth of an oäckabarn, an illegitimate child. The church frowned on these trysts and often condemned the women.

Anna-Stina was one of these women. But not to be ruled by The Church, she fought back, vowing to revenge the unwanted assault by a young minister, swearing he would one day confess his guilt before the congregation. Love, lust and romance rule.