To escape the oppression of a homeland on the brink of revolution, a Russian girl travels halfway around the world, to the wilds of Wyoming, to marry a man she has never met. She is his mail order bride.

So far from her native soil, and with little understanding of the English language, Galina tries to comprehend both her new husband, who speaks not a word of Russian, and the American frontier into which she has arrived. Although the locals seem friendly, she stands out as a foreigner, and there are perils for a stranger in a strange new world—especially for one who has voluntarily sold herself into matrimony.