Child actors Billy O'Dwyer and Virginia Grady, vacationing with Billy's family in 1932, become involved in a real-life drama of rivalry and deceit when they set out to locate a missing treasure.
The sheep dog Mack is the only constant in his owner Justine Mead's life, and when she travels back to her childhood home Mack is lost and then found by the couple Alice and Ed Parmalee who are mourning the death of their daughter.