Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there.
瑪麗拉•卡斯柏和她的哥哥馬修想要一起領養孤兒來幫忙照料農場,一開始他們要的是男孩結果來的卻是安妮,一個紅髮滿臉雀斑的女孩,一開口就講個不停。他們要的不是女孩,但怎麼捨得把一個重獲家庭的孤兒再丟回去孤兒院?所以安妮最後留下,在加拿大艾凡里裡平靜的村落裡展開新生活,而自從安妮的道來,這裡也變得不一樣了。