Elizabeth Barrett, the invalid daughter of domineering father, publishes a volume of verse which attracts the attention of another Victorian poet, Robert Browning. The two meet, secretly court and marry, to the consternation of Elizabeth's domineering father who has insisted that none of his children wed.
In post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.
Kitty Foyle, a hard-working white-collar girl from a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania low, middle-class family, meets and falls in love with young socialite Wyn Strafford but his family is against her.
