Miracle in the Park is a full-length version of the play, The Hobo and the Miracle. It is the early 1900’s in a small-town park during a cold winter night. Max, a homeless man, is interacting with a group of children that he alone can see. Also in the park that night are Robert, a young boy, and his mother. Robert, feeling sorry for the freezing man convinces his mother to invite Max for supper and stay until the snow stops. During this visit Robert begins believing that the ghost children that Max is seeing are real. He also learns Max is directing the children in a show that must be done by Friday or something bad will happen.
Robert’s belief in the ghost children begins to concern his mother. She calls the local doctor who then has Max committed to a supervised adult home. Robert remains convinced the children are real and soon he convinces most of his classmates at school. While confined at the Golden Valley Adult Home Max is medicated and soon stops believing in his ghosts up until he encounters a mystery woman. She reveals the tragic day she lost a child, Lily, who Max quickly identifies as one the children he has been seeing. Max is suddenly convinced the children are real and are trying to warn him about a tragedy that is about to happen.
He escapes from the home and rushes to the park to perform the show. To this day, whether or not there was a show in the park that Friday is still a matter of Golden Valley folklore. However, every single citizen of that quaint little town does agree they narrowly averted an unimaginable calamity.