After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.

A little Chinese girl comes into the life of a well-to-do lawyer.

Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they struggle with illness, thirst, hunger, and the threats posed both by one another and the local Indigenous peoples.

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.