Miles Brendan refuses after brilliant studies to pursue a society career as planned by his aristocratic guardian, Sir John Brendan. Miles successfully applies as manager of the Cornish coastal sheep farm of Liz Hawthorne, whose husband 'just left', while she loves cuckolded neighbor , a fisherman with a pre-teen daughter, Francie. He falls in love her pip-headed daughter, journalist Julia Hawthorne, who initially assumes him to be a wanted marriage swindler. Yet she prefers to be seduced by a slick Londener, Vic.
—KGF Vissers