A woman is evicted from her home, her belongings seized and her fine clothes cut off as she is called a robber. She and her young daughter are forced out onto the street. The girl, revealing hidden divine powers, comforts her mother and conjures a pouch of solid gold coins for their immediate needs. They take shelter in an abandoned, cobweb-filled bell tower. There, the girl guides her mother to a hidden cache of treasure, which turns out to be an inheritance left by the woman's late father-in-law. With their fortune restored, the girl urges her mother to invest in all the nearby coal pits before a brutal cold snap arrives, plotting to make the man who expelled them beg for warmth.