Synopsis: For Love and Freedom

What is true love? Is it defying your father, your inheritence, and any semblance of a successful future for the girl of your dreams? Is it crossing an ocean in bitter conditions, resentment behind you and the unknown before you, risking several lives in the process? John Swettenham, despite his father's better judgment, marries an actress in haste. With the few thousand pounds that Lord Swettenham gives him, the young couple move from England to the savage Virginia Colony, leaving behind a solid family inheritence.