Anne Shirley is grown up and has been married to her childhood friend Gilbert for fifteen years. They are now parents to six mischievous children, who often gather in a hollow called Rainbow Valley to play - and are about to be joined by an unusual new family. When the Merediths move into town - a widowed minister father with four children plus a runaway girl called Mary - rumours start swirling about the children's wild behaviour. Soon the Meredith kids join Anne and Gilbert's children in their