On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman – foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant – is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek.

Try as she might the town midwife, Gertrude, is unable to save her, but the baby lives.

Amber – who has recently lost a son in childbirth – and her husband Norman take the child in.

Loved by some but scorned by more, including her stepmother and sister, Jenny survives her childhood and grows into an exquisite and talented young woman. But who were her parents?