Novo Mundo follows a improbable love story between Anna Millman, a portuguese teacher of European origin, and Joaquim Martinho, a brazilian actor. Both travell across the Atlantic ocean, but, she has the company of the Austrian archduchess, while he travel disguised as a sailor without any bond with the royalty. Anna and Joaquim wouldn't even be in the same boat if fate didn't wanted. Is in this scene on the high sea that our romantic adventure begins, in 1817, the beginnig of the 19th-century.