An exuberant introduction to the world of Canadian composer, conductor, educator and renaissance man, Stephen Hatfield. This documentary reveals the creative collaborative excitement and tension as Hatfield and Susan Knight and Shallaway Youth Chorus of St. John's produce an opera performed by youth for adults. An opera based on the novel "Ann and Seamus" by Kevin Major. In July, 1828, the Despatch, a ship filled with Irish immigrants bound for Quebec City, ran aground in heavy fog and fierce winds off the Newfoundland coast near the Isle Aux Morts. Seventeen year old Ann Harvey, her father and twelve year old brother were instrumental in saving nearly all of the passengers.