The stories of nine early Baha'i believers: Lua Getsinger, an actress and singer; Mary Maxwell, a fragile beauty; Martha Root, a journalist; Hyde Dunn, a travelling salesman; Keith Ransom-Kehler, a brilliant socialite and one-time Christian minister; Susan Moody, a medical doctor; Dorothy Baker, an Ohio housewife; Ella Bailey, a school-teacher; and Marion Jack, a landscape portrait painter- all were transformed by their response to Abdu'l-Baha