Pirates, pirates, pirates and even more pirates, is all Emma is ever thinking of. Until the night before her tenth birthday. When you turn ten at Emma´s orphanage, you have to leave and work on a farm and that is not Emma´s pot of tea at all. When she gets a wrapped parcel of her friend, Richard, with a mysterious hand mirror, a small dagger and a letter from her birth mother, Emma decides to run away to become the pirate she always dreamt of ...... and to find her pirate mother.