A lonely old man expecting to despise his heir gets unmade by a child who doesn't know how to stop being kind. The Earl's transformation isn't a sudden conversion, it's erosion, the kind that happens when someone lets down their walls one conversation at a time. By the end you realize the real inheritance isn't a title, it's learning that love costs nothing and changes everything.

When his father dies suddenly, young Ceddie moves to England as the heir of his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt. The Earl is a stubborn, self-centered old man, but Ceddie meets him with a pure and innocent affection. Little by little, that love softens the Earl's heart and turns him into a kind and generous man. Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this 43-episode drama with a slice-of-life feel tells a gentle story of a boy and the grandfather he changes.