An orphaned drummer boy witnesses the birth of baby Jesus. Having no gift for him, he gives the only thing he has: a song.

Young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of being something more than being just a wife and mother. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, goes on to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.