In America

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In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalezowska, Poland's greatest actress, emigrate to the United States and travel to California to found a "utopian" commune--they think of it as a new Brook Farm--outside the village of Anaheim. When the commune fails and most of the emigres return to Poland, Maryna stays, learns English, and--as Marina Zalenska--forges a new, even more triumphant career on the American stage. A diva on a par with Sarah Bernhardt, Maryna soon forms her own company and crisscrosses the country in her private railroad car, year after year, eventually playing opposite Edwin Booth, the greatest American actor of the age