Anne Shirley has a difficult eary life. Born to kind and loving parents, she is tragically orphaned as a baby, and is soon sent from one foster home to the next, caring for other people's children even as a child herself, and escaping from her dark reality through the power of her vivid imagination. Curious, inventive, and outspoken, Anne battles to make a life for herself by searching out kindred spirits, finding solace in her books, and dreaming of the day she has a family of her own.