La première tempête hivernale approche et les Kilcher se dépêchent de préparer les huit prochains mois. Atz Sr va au-devant de la tempête pour mener un troupeau de bêtes.

A lusty frontier saga about a pioneer woman and her love for her family, the man she marries, and the land on which she lives, dramatized from Conrad Richter's Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy: 'The Trees;' 'The Fields;' and 'The Town.' The series originally aired on NBC in three installments from February 19 to February 21, 1978 and stars Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook.