After the death of their mother, siblings Mitch, Kate, Travis, and Lori Robbins go to the Los Angeles Courthouse with their neighbor, Mrs. Forsythe.
When she stops at a gas station to call the police after she suspects they're lying, Mitch takes the wheel of Peggy's car and drives away.
The four of them are hungry and stop at a store where Travis wins money on a slot machine with a quarter he picked up from the shop floor.
He welcomes them in and introduces himself, his gold-digging girlfriend Teresa and her son Rhett, who starts a fight with Mitch.
Afterward, Jack reveals to Peggy that the children's father is in prison and Mitch overhears them and sheds tears.
With Peggy and the police in pursuit, a plane suddenly appears and lands in front of the bus, forcing them to stop.
Though executive producer Bruce R. Brittain was a devout member of the LDS Church, his cavalier personality gave the film an action movie like edginess.
In spite of having none of the scenes with the elderly woman providing moral commentary on the phone, the Questar version is actually two minutes longer than the Feature Films for Families version because it restores all the scenes that Feature Films for Families had cut.