Based on the best-selling novel and inspired by true events, the story of Kirsty MacLeod (Hermione Corfield), who dreams of a better life away from the suffocating isolation of her small Scottish island village. When several young villagers are conscripted for service in the First World War, including her lover Murdo (Will Fletcher), a road dance is held in their honour the evening before they depart. It's on this fateful evening that Kirsty's life takes a dramatic and tragic turn.