Janet Travers is overjoyed on winning a place in the local grammar school. Painfully aware of the sacrifices her family makes, and determined to do well, she soon befriends a Jewish girl. At 17 she falls in love and plans to marry her friend's brother, but a Catholic wife is out of the question.
It isn\'t often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the villa...