In 1942, 25,000 young women applied to join the Women's Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs), but few were accepted. They fought male hostility, poor equipment and officialdisdain to become pilots. They piloted fighters and heavy bombers, but were specifically forbidden to fly overseas.Kansas farm girl SALLY HANSEN realizes her childhood dream to become an aviator and fly the Atlantic when, secretly, she and her pilot husband ferry a Liberator bomber to Scotland. But the airplane disappears and is officially listed as missing over Greenland.Sixty years later, granddaughter SCARLETT MITCHELL, a single mom raising her daughter in a dying West Texas town, goes in search of the truth. It is to be an astonishing odyssey.