During Operation Babylift - an emergency evacuation of 2,000 orphans from Vietnam - Cherie Clark was a key player, and one of the only women evacuated twice from the hell that followed the American withdrawal from Vietnam. This initial book of a trilogy recounts the first thirty years of this remarkable woman's life - from her birth in small-town Peru, Indiana, through April 1975, when she dodged enemy rocket attacks to escape from Saigon's famous Tan Son Nhut airport with plane filled with babies.