Separated as toddlers in the Catholic orphanage where their mother had left them, Leah Broome has spent her young life craving the love of her twin sister, Lara. When a letter from the convent announces Lara's death and the impending arrival of her daughter, Prairie Rose, Leah prepares to welcome the five-year-old as if she were Lara herself. Arriving in town to meet his daughter on the train, Tom Woden claims to be Prairie's father. The girl, however,...