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"The Land of Promise" by W. Somerset Maugham is a novelization of the author's play of the same name. The story tells about the emigration of English people to the Canadian prairies. An employer of a young lady dies, leaving her penniless. She decides to make her home with her brother in Canada but fails to get along with her sister-in-law. Now she has to find a way out of the house. A hired man owns a farm of his own but a storm has destroyed his crops and forced him to work. Shortly after the lady's arrival he leaves for his farm but not before she hears him remarking that he intends to get a woman to be his wife and housekeeper, to which the lady decides to take a chance. They get married but soon his crops are infested and his entire harvest is destroyed…