Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. <br /><br />She has to fetch water, mend clothes, please her master, care for his china-doll daughter and tiptoe around his moody soldier son. She can barely find time to dream about the way things used to be, let alone write in her diary. <br /><br />But write she must. It is her only hope of reaching out to the home she has left behind, all those thousands of miles across the sea.