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Emma Dunston, defiant daughter of turn of the nineteenth century multi-millionaire industrialist, Jonathan Dunston, has been expelled from yet another boarding school. This time her fathers uncontrolled rage at her lack of acceptable decorum forces him to incarcerate her in a home for wayward girls where Emma fantasizes about shooting him so she can watch tiny pieces of his tiny manhood fly everywhere.
Emma eventually graduates from nursing school, further enraging her father's sense of upper class privilege. When Emma tells him she intends to minister to the sick and homeless, he threatens her with commitment in an asylum, just as he had done to Emma's mother, for her lack of appropriate obedience. Fearful he will follow through on his threat, Emma flees to a missionary camp in Africa, where she meets camp physician Joe Eagle, and they immediately establish a contentious relationship.
Emma soon finds her bravado dwindling away in the face of starvation and unspeakable horror in the camp. Joe and Emma, two social outcasts, eventually reach out to each other and find they are more alike than they ever imagined.
As they prepare to return to Joes ancestral home in New Mexico, their lives take a complicated and unexpected turn.