Sarah Phillips, a servant orphaned by cholera in London in 1869, crosses the ocean desperately seeking her family. Richard Breeze, the disgraced son of an eastern Ontario sawmill owner, must redeem himself, then seek his own path. Their journeys are brought together by a group of Home Children – waifs and orphans from the urban slums of Britain, brought to Canada as cheap farm labour or domestic help. Finding Home also pulls back the curtain on many issues of the time: class differences; Protestant/Catholic friction; homophobia, racism and the treatment of child immigrants.

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