The Winfields are enjoying a glamorous evening aboard the luxurious Titanic in 1912. After toasting the engagement of their daughter Edwina and celebrating the sixth birthday of her sister, Alexis, terror strikes when the ship crashes into an iceberg and slowly sinks, killing the family's parents and Edwina's fiance. Edwina becomes the sole supporter of her siblings, working day and night to keep the family together and to save her family's crumbling newspaper empire. For 12 long years, she puts romance on hold, until a trip across the Atlantic -- her first since that tragic night -- an affair with a handsome Englishman teaches her to love again. Finally, Edwina returns to America hoping to banish the horrors of that fateful night forever.