What do an unknown soldier, a Victorian zealot, Ferdinand the Bull, an old philosophical farmer, a mean Army colonel, a progressive young doctor, and a stick-wielding ballet teacher have in common? All become part of the thinking of an abandoned child who just wants to know WHY. Her determination to accept what she can't change and change what she can through forgiveness of herself and others is the crux of this tender tale of a child's view of the world. Her quest to find her origins and the why of the matter take her from a farm in Missouri, through a war, to a stage in Hollywood, to a satisfying realization of the mysteries of life.