One early morning just before the Great War, a young girl is found abandoned, barely alive, in a small English village. Daniel is the boy who saves her, and his childhood companion, Esther, the only witness to the evil-looking man who most likely abandoned her. The girl refuses to utter a single word about where she came from or who she is, and when a traveler volunteers to deliver her to an orphanage, she slips away from his cart, never to be seen...