After the end of the Second World War, the nurse Claire Randall goes to Scotland with her husband—to restore the love of the past after a long separation, and at the same time to find information about her husband’s relatives. Accidentally touching a stone circle where the local women had performed a strange pagan ritual the day before, Claire falls into the past—into the blood-soaked year of 1743, so cruel for Scotland. Saved from her shameful fate by the Scotsman Jamie Fraser, she begins to tear between loyalty to her husband who remains in 1945 and a burning passion for her protector.