As Eloise grows into a beautiful and intelligent young woman, she dreams of becoming a ballerina and actress. When her overbearing parents step in and limit her opportunities, Eloise becomes engaged to an older divorced man and begins making plans to immigrate from Brazil to the United States to attend graduate school. But when her fiancE dies in a plane crash just six weeks before they are to depart, Eloise is left wondering if she will ever find room in her broken heart to love again.
Accompanied by her godparents, a naturally brokenhearted Eloise decides to continue with her plan...