An angel wakes Joseph in the middle of the night. The family must leave at once, cross the desert, and live for years in a foreign land.

On the last evening of the year a barefoot girl crosses the city with her matches. Every match she strikes holds a picture inside it.

Mary crosses the hill country to help an elderly cousin, and their meeting becomes the oldest song of Christmas.

The story of Amabile, the girl who crossed the ocean, cared for the sick in a tiny wooden house, and became the first saint of Brazil.

Francis rebuilds churches with his own hands and, without planning it, watches a family of brothers grow around him. Clare runs away from home to follow him, the Pope approves the Order, and Francis crosses a war to speak with the Sultan.

At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, a golden apple rolls across the floor bearing a mysterious message. The choice of a young shepherd named Paris will change the fate of Troy forever.

On the plain of Camlann, two armies meet for the last battle. Arthur faces Mordred, Excalibur returns to the lake, and a boat crosses the mist toward Avalon. The end of the Arthurian legends — and the promise of the once and future king.

Jesus and his disciples are crossing the sea when a great storm appears. The waves are huge and the wind is strong, but Jesus calms everything with a single word. Who is this, whom even the wind and the sea obey?

Jesus is betrayed, arrested, and crucified. He gives up his own life, out of love, to save humanity. The saddest story of all, and at the same time the most important.

Trapped between the Red Sea and Pharaoh's army, the Israelites seem lost. But God opens a path through the waters and saves his people.