Patagonia 1921. In the aftermath of the Great War, Georgie Carruthers crosses the ocean for a new life as governess to a motherless child. On an isolated estancia in the middle of the vast Patagonian plain, Georgie finds a household  consumed by sorrows and secrets. Soon, she becomes the confidant of her employer, the widower Ian Creed.

As Georgie learns to love her new home, with its backdrop of gale-blown plains and wild horses, she is bewitched by the quiet charm of Raúl, the horse breaker. But insurrection is stirring among the estancia workers, and the landowners plan brutal reprisals...