Born in the grim poverty of a Midland mining village, fair and sturdyMarigold Smith knows her future lies with supporting her overburdenedparents in raising her two younger sisters. Marigold makes an agonizingdecision - she gives up her son, the only living memory she has of Richard,to the parents-in-law who threw her out - in return for the financialsecurity her family so desperately needs.