In an old family house in Maine, the family patriarch announces his death the same day that his granddaughter is to be married. His grandson is named the sole heir, and conflict ensues.

Following the death of her father, a prominent country doctor, a young girl must navigate both her dream of being a music teacher and her position as the eldest child in the family.

When young woman living in the city visits her two elderly aunts in the Montana countryside, she discovers that there's more to her family's past than she had thought.

A young woman has been mocked and shunned by her family for her entire life, never taken seriously as a contender for inheriting her grandmother's magical powers — so, as her grandmother's death approaches, the young woman decides to prove to herself once and for all just how much her family has underestimated her.