Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Anne Shirley's daughter, Rilla, looks forward to her first dance and her first kiss. But undreamed-of challenges await irrepressible Rilla when a far off war endangers the happy world of Ingleside.