Eleven-year-old Anne Shirley has never known a real home. Since her parents died when she was three months old, she has grown up in foster homes and in an orphanage. So when she is sent to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she thinks she's finally found a home. Green Gables is the most beautiful place she's ever seen, and best of all, this time she's going to be adopted.