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"You have to beat the words, Marta, beat the stuttering. Learn to speak, to let your voice be heard."

After her father's death, all Marta wants to do is hide. Hide from her stuttering. Hide from the world outside her home. Hide from her family who so often reminds her of him. But even Marta realizes she cannot hide forever, and staying hidden gets even harder when her mother decides they are leaving Germany for America. Trying so desperately to cling to her silence, Marta realizes her only relief is writing letters. Until she meets Emma, and the families she is forced to stay with.

While the families try to help Marta find her voice; Marta realizes the only way to sail towards her family, is to sail away from her silence.