An adventurous man on vacation, John Bruno, stumbles onto old diaries found in the attic of an old abandon house beside a river, which is only accessible by boat. He discovers the history of the house and the family that had built it in the late 1880's. He reads about their struggles, and heartbreaks, and adventure. He finds himself totally lost in the past with this family, Henry and Ellen Keller, and their two children, Jacob and Sarah. As he reads...