"When Linna, 12, moves from Germany with her mother and brother to Canada where her father (is) working, she fears that she will be forced to give up her dream of becoming an opera singer... she lives in a sod house and struggles to learn the language. Her relationship with her father is strained... With determination, patience, and... work, however... Adeline and her family discover that their dreams didn't die... and that life can be sweet wherever home is found.