Jess interacts with townsfolk in a small mining community in 1888.

Jess restores the hope of a teen crippled in a riding accident.

In 1692 New England, Jess gets caught up in emotional entanglements and a witch trial.

After being shipwrecked in Tonga in 1770, Jess is nursed back to health and becomes fascinated by the local tribe's culture, but the arrival of English Christian missionaries triggers trouble.

In 1952, short-tempered company owner Cleaver Jackson forms an unlikely friendship with new mailroom boy Jess due to their shared interest in fishing, but others suspect Jess has ulterior motives.

While working as a carpenter at a school in an Old West gold rush town, Jess tries to help two pupils being bullied after discovering they have been living alone since their mother died and their father resorted to alcoholism.