Follows two Neapolitan kids as they journey to New York to escape Italy's early postwar poverty.

After a friend disappears, taken to a Nazi camp, a group of three youngsters go on a rescue mission. While searched by a nun and a soldier, they are buffeted by perilous adventures and a desire for independence that comes at a heavy price.

A doctor from New York travels to a remote plantation in the 1890s to care for a disturbed boy who seems to have inexplicable abilities. She begins treating the child, but in doing so, ignites a war between science and religion as the local priest believes the boy is possessed by the devil and the cause of the village's woes.