It's 1849 and Nellie is arriving in Port Adelaide after a long journey by ship from Ireland. Nellie – along with her best friend, Mary – is full of dreams for a new life free from poverty and disease. In South Australia, she hopes to get a job, to learn to read and never to go hungry again. Over 4000 girls like Nellie took part in the Orphan Immigration Scheme, which transported suitable orphans from the workhouses of famine-devastated Ireland to be domestic servants in the colonies, shes 12