Once upon a time, in a big wood, there was a poor woodcutter and a poor woodcutter's wife. Cold, hunger, misery, and war all around them, made their lives very difficult. One day, the poor woodcutter took in a baby. A baby thrown from one of the many trains that constantly passed through their woods. Protected whatever the cost, this baby, this little commodity, is going to change the lives of this woman, her husband and all those who cross her path, right up to the man who threw her off the train. Their story will reveal the worst as well as the best of the human heart.