Energetic Kitty manages to escape the poverty and abuse that marked her childhood and adolescence in Dublin and start a new life. It turns out she has a talent for surviving every danger she gets entangled in – including the sinking of the Titanic. Could there be some higher purpose behind it? Perhaps her mission is to ensure that no one else has to suffer as she once did? And so, with the support of her friend, an idealistic leftist journalist, she begins to try to change the world. In New York, she fights for women's voting rights, travels as a journalist across war-torn Europe, witnesses the October Revolution in Russia, and tends to the wounded in her native Ireland during the civil war. And her illusions and ideals gradually begin to crumble. During this incredible journey, she reunites with her childhood love, Tom Doyle. But dark shadows from her past stand between them. Will Kitty be able to free herself from them?
