In the early twentieth century, the Franco-Canadian Pelletier family moves to Colorado after their father, who has found work at a marble quarry. The older Pelletier, outraged by the brutal “sweatshop” system imposed at the quarry, tries to organize the workers into a union, but meets fierce resistance from the company owners. His daughter, seventeen-year-old Sylvie Pelletier—a smart, bold, and determined girl who collaborated with the local newspaper and wrote articles about unbearable working conditions in the stone pits—sincerely wants to follow the family’s ideals, yet almost against her will she falls in love with the heir of the marble empire and finds herself among the powerful. Torn between her beloved and her native people, who can barely make ends meet, Sylvie believes that justice is on her side and is ready to fight for it to the end—but will she have enough strength and persistence?