After she falls under suspicion when some jewels go missing, Callie DeBoyer wonders if she should leave her governess job and her golf-instructor love interest to escape to Africa to become a missionary with her parents.

Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...

The King and I tells the true story of an Englishwoman, Anna Leonowens (Deborah Kerr), who comes to Siam as a schoolteacher to the royal court in the 1860s.