A three-year-old orphan, Lily loses both parents and is falsely branded a jinx by the villagers. Despite the rumors, Emma, a blind old woman, takes her in. With the mysterious power of her angel pendant, Lily performs miracles of healing, foresight, and recovering lost things, time and again dispelling the slander and persecution against her. In the end, she uncovers the key to the royal treasury that had been lost for a hundred years, rising from a reviled "child of misfortune" to a heroine of the kingdom—and with her beloved family, welcomes a new life.