Sue Gordon, a mountain girl on the Tennessee side of the Cumberlands, lives with her grandmother. When "Granny" dies, Sue--fulfilling Granny`s dying wish--goes to Chicago to live with John Peyton, an industrialist who was at one time Sue`s mother`s fiancé. She finds that Peyton`s employees are on strike, and one of the strike`s leaders is Peyton`s son, Donald, to whom she is becoming increasingly attracted. Complications ensue.