Anne Shirley is a freckle-faced, red-haired girl, who grows up in an orphanage having lost her parents at a very early age. Anne is always cheerful and fun-loving despite being brought up without love or affection. When she turns 11, she is adopted by the old farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla. Anne starts her new life with Matthew and Marilla at a farm called "Green Gables", but actually the Cuthberts wanted a boy who could help with their work on the farm... Overcoming many hardships and meeting many friends and people, Anne grows up to be a strong-minded woman.

In the Croatian coastal town of Senj , orphans living on the fringes of society come together under the leadership of a girl who, because of her red hair , is called Rote Zora . The citizens of the city treat the destitute children like outcasts. Wild pranks are the reactions of the troops. In order to survive, the children become criminals, but within their community they adhere to fixed rules. Your top priority is solidarity. They call themselves Uskoks . The only one who feels connected to them is the old fisherman Gorian. The children help him to assert himself against the big fishing companies.

A new guardian "angelus" uncovers a secret behind the Angelus System's bureaucracy that leads him to break its official rules about protecting humans.