A homeless little girl caring for her little brother saves a sick old man from tormentors. She takes him to the shack her and her brother are hiding in and she gives him something to drink he begins to tell them a story of the days of yore, of a time before the new. As Carol listens, she finds herself transported into his story, from the days of the crucifix to the days of the gunfighters, she watches in horror at the death of her mother and grandfather by the hands of her evil father through her past lives. Guided by the old man in his many forms she finally witnesses the rescue of her mother and learns that one little girl can make all the difference in the world.