It's 1849 and Isabella Campertia is arriving is South Australia on a ship bringing orphan girls from Irish workhouses.Isabella and her best friend ,Mary, have left the famine in Ireland far behind , and are full of hopes and dreams for the future. Isabella longs to learn to read , to be apart of a family once more , and never to be hungry again. But with no job and no one to turn to, how will isabella make her wishes come true.
