When a young woman loses her husband weeks before she gives birth to their first child, she must raise the baby with the help of her parents and when they die, on her own. We watch the child, with a speech impediment, thrive though the love of her mother and those in the community. When the young girl sees three falling stars in a row, she makes her wishes, and converts them to three prayers, but learns to wait for them to come true. Set in rural Arkansas in the 1930s-40s when things were simple