 Pettigrew, a shop-keeper in a mountain town of Kentucky, falls in love with the teacher, Beatrice. The girl doesn t consider him as a lover, so he gets angry and accuses her of molesting his son Edward who has a mental illness. The girl marries the hermit, Fear O God Fulton in order to calm the people s anger and day by day she falls in love with her husband and a child is born. Pettigrew hides Edward and charges the hermit with his son s murder. Fear O God is imprisoned but he escapes and takes refuge in the mountain with his wife and son.