When loss and despair engulf you, what does it take to move forward? In 1920, from Abruzzo, Italy , young war widow and embroiderer, Clementina, agrees to escort a 7-year-old orphan to relatives in Henley Beach, South Australia . She’s also coming to look for her missing brother and a new way to support herself. When she meets a wounded soldier at Lady Galway’s Convalescent Home, also using his embroidery skills to start again, both must decide whether to cling to the past or bravely forge a new, shared future. Healing may come not from returning to what was lost, but from creating something tender and true together. A story steeped in ancient Abruzzese legends and traditions and introducing the vibrant seaside community of Henley Beach as it throws away its rural mantle to become a glittering jewel of the coastal communities.