After years of unsuccessfully trying to conceive a child, Virginian attorneys Gene (
Michael Woods) and Karen (
Faye Grant) York adopt a newborn from a nun-owned orphanage. As little Delia (
Asia Vieira) grows, Karen notices that she has a mean streak, difficulty making friends, and unusual psychic powers, so Karen hires private investigator Earl Knight (
Michael Lerner) to search out her birth parents.