Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's actual diary observations are woven into a story about shy, awkward eleven-year-old Jenny Petroff, who shares a love of music, ballet, and America with the great composer during his 1891 visit to the New World.
Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.