Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England without telling anybody. They befriend a neighbor Rosanne, who throws out her boyfriend after he beats her up in a bar. Lily, who is very English and out of place in the town, hires the half-Native Rosanne as a housekeeper, and eventually the two women become good friends, until the secret emerges again.
Kenneth Welsh
as David Sutton
Tantoo Cardinal
as Rosanne Ladouceur
Susan Wooldridge
as Lily Sutton
Vera Marin
as Beatrice
Diane Debassige
as Leona
Tom Jackson
as Eddy
Christopher Barrington-Leigh
as Robert Sutton
Meredith Rimmer
as Naomi Sutton
Yolanda Cardinal
as Lisa
Jeffrey Smith
as Nicholas Sutton
Larry Yachimec
as Mountie - Frank
