ATLANTA'S CHILD chronicles the life of Jana Piper, who grew up sailing around the world with her father on their old wooden schooner Atlanta. While other children went to school, Jana crossed the Pacific and South China Sea; climbing active volcanoes, swimming with sharks, sailing through tropical storms and experiencing a diversity of cultures. These adventures are relived through video footage taken of Jana over eight years, from when she was an eight-year-old. Now on the verge of womanhood, Jana must decide whether her future lies with the sea or in a formal education back on mainland Australia. Her father contemplates what life may hold for him now that his five year circumnavigation of the world ends.