"Your fortune lies to the west. Keep your face to the sunset... and one day you'll ride the greatest wheel in all the world." When Aunt Honora reads this fortune in his tea leaves, Conn Kilroy knows he is destined for greater things than his small Irish village can offer. But could he ever imagine that the wheel Aunt Horora spoke of would be the world's first Ferris wheel? Or that he wourld be one of the men chosen to construct it for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair?.