After the death of both her parents, an adolescent girl is sent away to be under the care of her cantankerous grandfather, the terror of his village. Through young orphan's innocence and infectious charm, little Chia Chia adjusts to her new surroundings with a positive attitude affecting everyone she meets including the irascible family patriarch whose world of ingrained adult cynicism and folly is about to be transformed to one of optimism and hope.
