In February 1846, nearly 240 Mormons—members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—fled New York City seeking religious freedom. Determined to sail around the tip of South America, they fought malnutrition, battled terrible storms and endured burials at sea to become the first civilians to round Cape Horn. This documentary film reveals their forgotten journey and the dramatic trials they experienced in California: the controversial religious leader, Sam Brannan, who began the Gold Rush but died a pauper…a newlywed couple, John and Elizabeth Horner, who turned a potato patch into California’s first multi-million dollar farm…and the dozens of Mormons who struggled to retain their faith in the face of wealth and opportunity.