"The Acorn" is a story about a stage theater owner named Graham and a young woman named Charlotte. Both of them possess something that's very important to each of them. For Graham, it's a theater that his father passed down to him, and for Charlotte, it's a ring that her mother passed down to her. But when Charlotte loses her ring, Graham is ultimately put in a position to make the choice of whether or not he will give up his theater, the thing that's most important to him, for Charlotte's ring to be returned to her.