Desperately poor in 1910 and trying to save her family from being forced to move to a facility for indigents, Lizzie Hughes must send one of her children to a Catholic Orphanage. Lizzie and her husband, James, are the first of their families to be born in the United States. Both of their families immigrated to the United States after the great Civil War. However Lizzie's family is from war torn Germany and James' family came from the starving Island of Ireland. Now, they live in highly industrialized Syracuse, New York, a place depended on immigrant labor but with little tolerance of the...