Traveling in third class with little more than a sketchbook and a borrowed coat, Jack Dawson boards the Titanic believing it to be another temporary stop in a drifting life. Below decks, meanwhile, a young woman—Clara Sullivan—has just been hired as a foot maid to a prominent first-class family. Her days are filled with pressing silk gowns, running endless errands, and climbing staircases that the wealthy passengers never notice. Exhausted before the ship even leaves Southampton, Clara dreams of sending her wages home to support her family while keeping her dignity intact in a world stacked against her.