Coming from a broken family and a boring life, Annie, a young teen, decides to leave her home but hasn’t figured out how. Until one day, at a fair, when she sees a hot air balloon. Helped by a grandfatherly figure to make her own balloon, off she goes to travel the world. But all is not as Annie imagined it might be, and she is challenged to cope with desperate situations that call for all her inner strength. In the process she learns a lot about people she meets; but most of all, she learns a lot about herself.