Escaping the sweltering heat and smoldering fury of the deep South and their Mississippi roots, Jack and Rose Nash move to the Windy City where their forbidden, passionate love flourishes despite hard times and icy winds of the late 1920s. Strengthened by a love that binds them heart to heart and soul to soul, they overcome every hardship together, until the one thing that should draw them closer rips them apart. Is it a sin to love someone with your very soul?