For decades, Christina Olson's whole world has been a rocky, windswept point on the coast of Maine, the farmhouse her ancestors fled to from the Salem witch trials. A sufferer of polio, her wasting limbs turn every task into a challenge. Years pass and Christina's solitude is broken by the arrival of young artist, Andrew Wyeth. In Christina he will discover more than a kindred spirit - for him, she will become a muse like no other.