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Well known as "master hairdresser of the seven seas," Sigismund Skrik is famous both as an musician of the scissors and comb, and as the spirit of discretion. Not only will he give clients new, life-changing looks - he also gets to know all their secrets. However the times of transatlantic sailing are numbered. It's 1879, and Europeans immigrating to america are beginning to choose the huge new steamships that make the crossing ten times as fast. As those glory times come to an end, Sigismund embarks on his last voyage from Hamburg in the old clipper Liberty, welcoming the latest batch of emigrants along with his usual open-minded sooth. He doesn't know them yet, but he'll. As each one moves through his cabin salon, the experiences they tell uncover the episode, pathos, and laughter of a thousand lives that, for a short, wave-tossed spell, get together on their way to the promised land.
