An eyewitness account of Mary MacKillop, Australia's first saint. This gentle documentary focuses on Bill McLeod, who at the age of 103, told the story of his early years to journalist and presenter Caroline Jones. Bill was orphaned at the age of three and taken in by the Sisters of St Joseph, the order founded by Mary MacKillop. He was cared for at the St Joseph's Orphanage for Boys at Kincumber, on the New South Wales Central Coast, for 12 years. Bill has no memory of his own mother, but vividly recalls the visits to the orphanage by Mother Mary MacKillop and the effect this had on the boys who lived and worked there.