Recounts how in 1614 Squanto was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists.

An old Dutch watchmaker and his two daughters become the center of a major underground operation: to hide Jewish refugees from the occupying Germans. They break all the rules to save the lives of men, women, and children being hunted by the Nazis. The cost of their bravery is betrayal, and they end up in the dreaded Ravensbruck concentration camp. Nevertheless, they continue their efforts to save those around them.

Against the stirring background of the French Revolution, we follow the tale of Jean Valjean as he encounters first the savage injustice of the law, and then the gentleness and grace of God.