The year is 1904.
She is quickly drawn into a web of heartbreak, controversy, and friendship that keeps her there..
Anxious about going but determined to save her brother, Clara makes her way to the Canal Zone.
Too sick to travel alone, he begs Clara to come and get him.
Her brother, who is working in Panama on the great canal, informs the family he must return home due to illness.
Nurse Clara Tyler happily spends her days tending patients in rural Ohio.
The year is 1904