After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
as Selina Peake
as Simeon Peake
as Pervus DeJong
as Dirk DeJong
as Klaus Poole
as Maartje Poole
as Aug Hempel
as Julie Hempel
as Widow Paarlenburg
as Jacob Hoogenduck
as Dirk DeJong (child)
as William Storm (as Henry Herbert)
as Dirk DeJong (infant)
as Paula Storm
as Dallas O'Meara
