Naomi Toombs, a farm wife, discovers that her Amish husband, who wanders off and returns not knowing where he has been, has seven secret wives. Her husband's last and final attempt at wandering off, pretending to be Schizophrenic, causes the death of her two children. Not being able to handle the nightmare loss of her children, she leaves her Amish community and starts over in the land of the English after her husband had been missing for five years. Twists and turns in the story lead her to the discovery that her husband is a polygamist. Secret wives keep popping up.