Growing up in a gold mining camp outside 19 th century San Francisco makes life seem hard until Lotta Crabtree arrives to sing and dance on a makeshift stage.
Walter is forced to grow up quickly, learning about life, from the whiskey bars and brothels of the California.
Her greatest fan, Walter Cain, the young son of an alcoholic miner, not only finds himself caught up in her music, but soon discovers their lives are fated to be connected.
Growing up in a gold mining camp outside 19 th century San Francisco makes life seem hard until Lotta Crabtree arrives to sing and dance on a makeshift stage