While traveling abroad with her close friend, Selina Bracebridge, another strong woman living an unconventional life, a rare opportunity arises for Florence Nighingale to practice medicine. She is intellectually gifted with an advanced education, thanks to her father's progressive political views, but can the daughter of a prominent English family defy Victorian societal expectations to fulfill her destiny?
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