"In the late 1930s\, civil war gripped Spa in. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the gover nment\, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee on a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser\, a pregnant young widow who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victo r Dalmau\, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order t o survive\, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them wants\, and t ogether are sponsored by poet Pablo Neruda to embark on the SS Winnipeg al ong with 2\,200 other refugees in search of a new life. As unlikely partne rs\, they embrace exile and emigrate to Chile as the rest of Europe erupts in World War. Starting over on a new continent\, their trials are just be ginning. Over the course of their lives\, they will face test after test. But they will also find joy as they wait patiently for a day when they are exiles no more and will find friends in the most unlikely of places. Thro ugh it all\, it is that hope of being reunited with their home that keeps them going. And in the end\, they will find that home might have been clos er than they thought all along."
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