A young woman in rural Scotland faces hardship after hardship as she struggles to keep her family farm going through personal losses and the devastation of World War I.
Episodes
S01E01 The Unfurrowed Field 1971-03-26 44m
'But for all my reading and schooling, two Chris Guthries there were that fought for my heart and tormented me.' more
S01E02 Ploughing 1971-04-02 41m
'You knew you'd never be the same again, but the world went on, and you went with it. So you folded up your dreams and laid them away with the dark quiet corpse that was your childhood.' more
S01E03 Drilling 1971-04-09 44m
'But a worse thing came as slow September dragged to its end. A thing I would never tell a soul. Festering away in the closet of my mind, the memory would lie until it died.' more
S01E04 Seed Time 1971-04-16 43m
'It wasn't like waking from a dream, marrying, but more like going into one. And I wasn't sure, not for days, what things we'd dreamt and what actually done.' more
S01E05 Harvest 1971-04-23 42m
'Our best friends were out of Kinraddie now. But we had ourselves. And seeing your Ewan grow straight and strong, with that slim body like his father's, it made a strange dizziness go singing in my heart.' more
S01E06 The Song 1971-04-30 44m
'Everything I had ever loved and desired went out to the madness beyond the hills on that ill road that flung its evil white ribbon down into the dusk.' more 
