Marianne, at age thirteen, travels by train from Frankfurt to Genoa, Italy, stays in a hotel there and embarks on a two-week sea voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Due to the political circumstances of the era, she is not accompanied. On her journey, she meets people. Some mean her well, and some ill. She eventually arrives in New York on November 14, 1950.
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