On 21 October 1929 the ocean liner Saturnia sails from Trieste on its voyage to America picking up immigrants from the ports of the Mediterranean. A young Greek who boards the ship at Patras will witness an unexpected encounter: One night aboard this ship that carries the dreams of the New World, an equally dreamlike but very real encounter will take place between two of the greatest poets of the century that just ended: Fernando Pessoa and Constantine Cavafy