In the year of 1860, Lydia, age twenty-eight, scrutinizes a condensed world she has come to know. So on a chosen night, she takes a step for freedom. Ned, a Texas cowboy, is the first encounter of her challenge for a different life. He ensures Lydiaas safety among a small wagon train headed west to California. At the end of the wagon trail, Lydia exchanges the wooden board of the wagon for a ride on her mule to the destination of a city known as San Franciscoa)