Tilly Trotter isn't like the other girls. Tall and coltish, she's not afraid of taking on 'man's work'. Tilly only loves one man, farmer Simon Bentwood, and she's heartbroken to discover that he's betrothed to another. A spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge. Idle gossip brands her a witch. A betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine and puts her life in danger. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken - determined that all this will serve only to make her stronger...