Christy Huddleston left home at 19 to teach school in the Smoky Mountains. There she came to know and ove the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, their yearning for beauty and truth. Christy found her faith severely challenged in these primitive surroundings:and confronted with two young men of unique strengths and needs, she found her own growing yearnings challenged by love.