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Winterswijk, 1847. Abel Sikkink is eight years old when his parents decide to emigrate to America. But fate strikes and the ship on which they sail to their final destination, the Phoenix, sinks
Abel is the only one in the family to survive the disaster. He grows up in a small village in Wisconsin, until he spreads his wings and follows his friend Kalle, who makes a career as a photographer in New York. There a new world opens up. So newspaper tycoon Gordon Bennett of The New York Herald, poet Walt Whitman, actress Ada Clare and abolitionist John Brown cross his path. 
It is the eve of the American Civil War and Abel is preparing for a new role: that of war reporter. Meanwhile, he continues to search obsessively for those responsible for his family's downfall.