It is the early nineteenth century and Josiah is a poacher, travelling the lamd. His caravan is his home and that of his daughter Kate. But Kate isn't his real daughter. He found her - a pretty abandoned three year old - on the Lancashire moors. Fifteen years later, circumstances force Kate and Josiah to stop travelling, a situation Kate accepts with the same stoicism she has accepted everything else about their life. But all that is about to change, when Kate finds herself lovedby three very different men: the Squires nephew, a young labourer, and an enigmatic stranger who arrives in the village. And as the story unfolds, so does the mystery of Kate's birth.