Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.
After their parents are killed in a terrible accident, the four McMurrin children live with their loving Aunt Martha. Martha wants to adopt the children but the town's bitter old banker stands in their way. However, the children's courage and ingenuity triumph and they become a family just before the holidays.
When a rock fall traps his parents inside a burning car, a 7 year-old boy must find the hero within him in order to save their lives.
