Eight-year-old Samantha Cole struggles for a morsel to eat. She has no dreams for tomorrow for today is so uncertain. Until a sudden storm drives her to seek refuge in a Bristol dockyard cobbler's shop... Thrown together with Cecil Fontaine the two children form a bond that no storm can ever tear apart. Cecil is a small boy with high-sailing dreams, and when he later gets a position as a cabin boy on a ship, Samantha...