Nathan McCann is out walking when he finds a new born baby boy half buried in the woods. At first Nathan thinks hes too late but then the baby moves. This day is the most remarkable day of Nathans life and always will be. When the child is returned to his grandmother Nathan asks her to make him one simple promise that one day she will take the boy to Nathan and tell him This is the man who found you in the woods. Years later Nathan finds an angry troubled boy on his doorstep. And so begins a magical relationship between two ordinary people profoundly effected by a single extraordinary event.