On Prince Edward Island, aging brother and sister, Mathew and Marilla Cuthbert, decide to adopt a boy to help with chores around their farm. As the result of a misunderstanding, the boy turns out to be none other than Anne, a feisty and lively redhead who is as charming as she is tenacious. At first Mathew and Marilla are at odds as to what “use” Anne might be to them, when Mathew wisely observes that he and Marilla “might be of some use to her”. And thus begins the warm tale of three lives that grow together in the enchanted Avonlea.