Al, who never got along with his father, decides to leave the act. Carver is impressed with Sonora's ability to train him. She is finally given her chance to train to dive when Al brings home an unbroken horse (Lightning) and Dr. Carver decides to give Sonora a job as a stable hand. She is awestruck and knows that this is her destiny.

Carver's son, who shows her around the tower where the horses dive. Sonora strikes up a friendship with Al, Dr. Carver that she was there to become the next diving girl. All did not go as smoothly as she would like when she found the fairgrounds and announced to Dr. Carver at the Savannah County Fair.' These were the two thoughts that she took with her as she ran away from home in the middle of the night to become that young girl who would dive horses and travel. Another ad also responsible for shaping her future, was one she saw in a local store which read, 'Young girl needed to ride diving horses. Sonora had seen a picture of a young model posing in front of a sign at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City that read 'Where All Your Dreams Come True'.

Feeling that Sonora is too difficult to handle, her aunt tells her that she is turning her over to the State. Sonora Webster is a head-strong teenager who has been taken in by her aunt after her mother and father die. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken is a true story that takes place during the Depression.

Wild hearts can't be broken setting