In the 1860's a 17 year-old girl boards a sailing ship

that will take her across the Atlantic to America.

She falls for a sailor, they wed and begin a life together in Virginia.

He is soon drafted into the Civil War, deserts and vanishes.

Now alone, she picks herself up and goes West to 

California and Mexico, gold mining towns and saloons,

Indian missions, bullfighting arenas, stagecoaches and romance.

These songs are her imagined diary.