Faraday Hightower, a successful practicing physician, having lost his wife, who died during difficult childbirth on a ship in the Atlantic, loses faith in God and, leaving his craft, sets out to travel the world in search of what he has lost. Not finding answers to the questions that tormented him and not finding peace of mind and humility, he decides to say goodbye to life. But an unexpected night visit from an old gypsy woman prevents the plan from happening. The gypsy assures Faraday that she was sent to him by his dead wife, and tells him to get ready for a new journey...