In the mid-1870s, Daniel, a street urchin in New York's dangerous Five Points district, attracts the attention of a criminal gang with his astounding hand-eye co-ordination. Elsewhere, Lincoln, a Tennessee-born child of ex-slaves, turns heads with his gift for geometry and mathematics, and Lily, an orphan working with a travelling circus, discovers her talent for talking with dogs. Daniel's gang and Lily's circus travel to greener pastures in the...