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Tierärztin zu werden ist ihr großer Traum - auch wenn sie dafür einen hohen Preis zahlen muss. Um 1912 als Tierärztin arbeiten zu können, heiratet Nellie ihren Jugendfreund Philipp De Groot, der die väterliche Praxis übernimmt. Sie liebt ihn zwar nicht, aber die beiden verbindet seit ihrer Kindheit eine innige Freundschaft. Sie verspricht jedoch, ihn freizugeben, sobald er eine Chance sieht, seinen eigenen Berufswunsch als Musiker zu verwirklichen. Als sich ihm diese nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bietet, verschwindet er plötzlich aus ihrem Leben.

Nach ihrer Flucht aus Deutschland sind Nellie und Maria mit ihren Familien in Neuseeland endlich in Sicherheit. Auf dem Gestüt der von Gerstorfs eröffnen die beiden Tierärztinnen eine Praxis. Doch das anfängliche Glück währt nicht lange. Die Auswirkungen der Weltwirtschaftskrise sind auch in Neuseeland zu spüren. Und zwingen Maria und ihren Mann, als Tierärzte bei einem Zirkus anzuheuern, was sie bis nach Australien führt. Auch Nellies und Walters Glück steht vor einer Zerreißprobe.

In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Without parents or a home, they are shipped to a refugee camp in Persia, where the days ahead hold only darkness. When they hear that orphans are being selected for relocation to New Zealand, Helena is filled with hope - until the officials say they have a place only for her younger sister. On the morning she is to be transported, Luzyna fails to join the chosen group, and Helena takes her place.

Hardworking London governess Helen Davenport longs for a family of her own but knows the prospect of finding a suitable husband grows dimmer each year. Then she spots an advertisement seeking wives for the churchgoing bachelors of colonial New Zealand and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer.Meanwhile, not far away in Wales, society life bores Gwyneira Silkham, beautiful, daring daughter of a wealthy sheep breeder.

New Zealand, 1893: William Martyn is better educated and more cultivated than the other men breaking their backs searching for gold near Queenstown. William is the son of landed Irish nobility, and he comes to town ready to invest in the best equipment. On his search for supplies, he encounters spirited and beautiful young Elaine O’Keefe, who promptly falls in love with him.

As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women’s suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult.

In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The luck of the Irish, however, is not on their side. Soon, they find themselves swept up in circumstances they never could have fathomed. Kathleen is forced to marry against her will and immigrate to New Zealand.

The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie - who arrived in New Zealand as a naïve young bride in In the Land of the Long White Cloud - Gloria Martyn has enjoyed an idyllic childhood at Kiward Station, her family’s sprawling sheep farm in the Canterbury Plains. When her parents send word from Europe that it’s time for Gloria to become a proper “lady” by attending boarding school half a world away in England, Gloria must leave everything and everyone she loves most in the world, including her steadfast protector Jack McKenzie.