Three families in the past are linked to the present by an old lady's search for the truth about her family fortune; where it came from and what happened to it. While searching for the truth her great grandaughter Kalle discovers a White Supremacist plot against New Zealand's Moslem community. In 1801, Isabella Blyde is left pregnant and in limbo when her fiance disappears. She is attacked and left for dead. The Pajaris are merchants from Finland who are caught up in the political struggle to keep the Baltic trade routes open. Harriet Millichamp is having an affair with Samuel Boyd, a man of colour, but is having a baby to the local Vicar.