Overview
In the late 1920s, close to a million orphans roamed the dirty streets of New York City. A very fortunate few were placed on Orphan Trains and sent west, looking for loving homes. Nettie MacCleary, a young Kansas farm wife, is devastated by the loss of her baby. Nettie has a gift - one that tells her to somehow hold on...that her dead child will return to her. The last Orphan Train departs New York City, and the two abusive Placing Agents in charge have decided to make this final trip their most personally profitable. A last-minute orphan is added to their cargo - a mysterious little boy with no past. The boy is guided and guarded by a "friend" only he can see. Worlds of faith and evil, love and greed collide as the train makes its' way to Kansas.