Pacifica

Leaving is the same as arriving.In pursuit of her art, fleeing an unhappy affair, Nola Lynch sails from New York, through the Panama Canal, to California. Alone.The year is 1914. The Panama Canal has just opened after tortuous years in the making and the United States feels proud and invincible. In Mexico, revolution rages between plantation owners and the peons. And movie makers flee New York for the ease of shooting motion pictures in dry, sunny Hollywoodland. Nola anticipates romance, ex...