Phoebe Hiller's visit to her grandmother's cottage in England is not going well. All the people in the village know who she is and fuss over her "foreign" accent and manners. It's enough to make a regular Canadian kid feel like a circus act. But one day Phoebe meets a Gypsy, a mysterious woman who seems to know all about her — including the secret taht Phoebe has kept from the whole world. Now everything has changed.