Questa serie porta alla luce gli toccanti viaggi di bambini e giovani adulti trasportati attraverso l'America con i treni degli orfani durante il XIX secolo. Ogni puntata offre una prospettiva unica sulle sfide dell'immigrazione, dell'espansione verso ovest e della ricerca di appartenenza. Queste narrazioni esplorano temi di resilienza, legami familiari e lo spirito umano duraturo sullo sfondo di una nazione in rapida evoluzione. È uno sguardo avvincente su come la speranza possa sbocciare anche nelle circostanze più difficili.
When an 1850s financial crisis leaves orphan Elise Neumann and her sisters destitute, Elise seizes their only hope: to find work out west through the Children's Aid Society and send money home. On the rails, she meets privileged Thornton Quincy, who suddenly must work for his inheritance. From different worlds, can these two help each other find their way?
Marianne Neumann has one goal in life: to find her lost younger sister, Sophie. When Marianne takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in 1858 New York, she not only hopes to give children a better life but seeks to discover whether Sophie ended up leaving the city on an orphan train. Andrew Brady, her fellow agent on her first placing trip, is a former schoolteacher who has an easy way with the children--firm but tender and funny. Underneath his handsome charm, though, seems to linger a grief that won't go away--and a secret from his past that he keeps hidden. As the two team up placing orphans amid small railroad towns in Illinois, they find themselves growing ever closer . . . until a shocking tragedy threatens to upend all their work and change one of their lives forever.
After witnessing a crime, Sophie Neumann disappears with her two young charges on an orphan train heading west. At the first stop, she faces the most difficult choice of her life. Reinhold Weiss has finally purchased his own small farm when an old friend shows up, pleading for help. But how can he help her when mounting debts and past scars still haunt him?