Having broken the painted eggs intended for the Easter Festival in Moscva, an injured goose rescued by Babushka lays thirteen marvelously colored eggs to replace them, leaving behind one final miracle in egg form before returning to her own kind.
A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.
