Junior, awakened to the joys of giving when his class collects food for a local orphanage, decides to use the money given to him by his grandmother for his birthday to buy a special gift for Chris, a boy he met at the children's home.
Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes, so when her son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go around.
Because she desperately wants to have her picture taken, ten-year-old Amy finds a way to accumulate the necessary five dollars but then decides to spend it in another way.