Two eight-year-old children, Nonnie and her friend Alex, are left to their own devices in trying to sort out whether or not Alex's recently deceased mother is truly haunting them.
In search of her estranged husband, a mother brings her 3 children to Los Angeles in the hope of finding him. With no prospects they wander the streets; becoming beggars before long. Things start to turn around for them when the mother meets a Christian missionary.