Inspired by her horoscope's prediction of an "abundant future" in a new job, Sylvia the 18-year-old daughter of a single mother is hired second cook at Bermuda's Ravello Gardens Guesthouse. Edith Thompson, the tight fisted spinster who owns the guesthouse, sends Sylvia to the Hamilton market everyday to purchase the food her cook requires for the evening meal. During her daily trips to the city, Sylvia runs into Annie Craig, an old acquaintance who once dated Edith Thompson's brother. When the librarian suggests Sylvia might be related to the Thompson family because of her freckles, she sets out to find her father