Newly arrived in Canada, an Italian woman has difficulty adjusting. Her lack of language skills has increased her sense of isolation in the home. It is hard to make social contacts. Her husband has done well working in Canada for two years. She resists the idea of bringing her father over because she herself is so unhappy.

A discerning study of an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and despair with which they begin life in a strange land. The film pictures the arrival of an Italian wife to rejoin her husband in a large Canadian city. After two years in Canada the husband feels his dream of a better life is close to realization, but his wife, far from her familiar village, feels that differences of language and custom are insuperable. How such feelings are dispelled by simple gestures of friendship from Canadian-born neighbours gives a heartening conclusion to the film.