Like a glow in the deep night

1937: Head over heels, the Englishwoman Alice follows her fiancé Bennett to America. But instead of the land of unlimited opportunity, she finds herself in Baileyville, a nest in the mountains of Kentucky. The most powerful man is the tyrannical mine owner Geoffrey Van Cleve, her father-in-law, under whose roof she must live. Alice only finds new courage to face life when she meets four women from the Packhorse Library: one of the rural libraries founded on the initiative of the president's wife Eleanor Roosevelt. The women bring books home to those who are too sick or too old. Day after day, they ride heavily packed horses to the remote farms in the mountains. Alice loves her task, the wild nature and its inhabitants. And she takes courage to go her own way. Also in love. Against all odds.