O Pioneers !

Alexandra Bergson is the eldest child of a Swedish immigrant family, newly arrived to the untamed landscape of the American West. Home for them is the desolate stretch of plains known as the Divide. When Alexandra's father dies, it is she who becomes the head of the family and struggles to soften the wild, overgrown soil to make it a prosperous farm. But this success is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself...