Lasting Treasures

Forced to flee her native land in the wake of the Russian Revolution, young Viktoria Gunsbergarrives in war-torn Paris with only the clothes on her back. She is swept off her feet by charming american serviceman Gary Barton, and soon finds herself living as his bride in Virginia on the opulent Barton estate, also headquarters of the Barton tobacco empire.Deperate for a diversion in the lonely life in Virginia, Vicky becomes increasingly involved in Barton tobacco. But as the company becomes ever more successful, the dangers of smoking start to emerge. Vicky's principles recoil from profiting from a product that kills, but those products are all that matter to her ambitious son...