The year is 1888, and Jess finds himself in a small gold mining community, competing in a friendly race, and interacting with the locals, but malicious activity soon unfolds.
It is modern times, and following a crippling accident, Anna, a former teen horse riding prodigy, and her family visit a campground where Jess is working for the summer.
The year is 1692. Jess arrives in New England where he works and lives with a family on a small farm. Soon, emotional entanglements lead to a sinister local witch trial.
After being shipwrecked in Tonga in the year 1770, Jess is nursed back to health by a local tribe. Things take an unexpected turn when English missionaries land on the island.
It is 1952, and Cleaver Jackson, a short-tempered company head, forms an unlikely friendship with the new mail room boy, Jess, through their mutual interest in fishing.
It is 19th century America, and Jess is a carpenter at a local school on the West Coast amid a community suffering a boom-and-bust cycle following the end of the Gold Rush.
The year is 53 A.D., and Jess is employed as a cook in an orphanage, when one of the orphans accidentally reveals that she and her sister are children of the rebel Simon Avaran.
Traveling through Central America in the year 1580, Jess saves a drowning girl, and her family is very grateful. It will take extra work to gain everyone's respect, however.
It is 1959, and Jess is a new kid at the local high school in Midwestern America. One student, Danny, quickly grows envious and jealous of the attention Jess is receiving.
Amid the 1899 Boer War in South Africa, two soldiers find themselves at a crossroads when they discover Pieter, a local farmer, and foe, who has sustained a severe leg injury.
The year is 1850 in America's Wild West, and Jess crosses paths with a thief named Aran, whom he ends up accompanying back to his family farm, where more surprises await.
It is modern times, and upon attempting to find glucose for his diabetic girlfriend, Greg engages in a fistfight with Carl, leaving Greg unable to ever play rugby again.
The year is 1856, and a Chinese store owner and his grandson are being intimidated by a gang of local racist teenagers, led by a bully named Tully, forcing Jess to intervene.
It is the year 100 B.C., and Jess becomes caught in a bitter feud while working as an apprentice shoemaker that precipitates into conflict and heartbreak for two young lovers.
It is modern times, and after being fired from a delivery job, Jess is hired by Saul, a humble restaurant owner in Brooklyn, New York, who is being threatened by gangsters.
It is 450 B.C when Jess is attacked by tribesmen, but is rescued by Esau, a hunter, who takes Jess back to his tribe's camp, where Jess discovers a deep family feud waiting.
In the year 1955, in the village of Kildogan in Southern Ireland, Jess meets Jonty and Mo, a brother and sister in desperate need of good fortune, along with their family.
It is 1961, and Jess is a new student at a local high school in the southern states of America where he soon finds himself caught in the middle of a serious racial conflict.
While travelling to Jerusalem, Jess is chased by a band of Roman soldiers. In seeking a hideout, he stumbles upon a wedding in Cana where he happens to meet Jesus.
It is modern times, and while working in a Las Vegas casino, Jess befriends a washed-up performer, Tommy Love, who turns out to be less of a star than Jess originally thought.
Working as a private teacher to Aviner's daughter, Elkie, in Galilee, Jess soon finds himself caught in a family feud when Daniel, Aviner's son, opens his own business.
It is 14th century England amid the Black Plague when Jess unexpectedly saves Morgan, a performer at a local market, who Jess later discovers is a conman selling fake potions.
During the French Revolution, while working as a servant in the Chateau of Pierre Mandin in 1792, Jess is forced to serve Pierre's buffoonish, drunken son, Phillipe.
It is 1850. Jess befriends 16-year-old Samuel, who is expected to take over his deceased father's job as the village baker. Samuel, however, dreams of travelling the world.
Jess finds himself in a mythical, ancient time, witness to the generationally warring tribes of the Mali and the Dujane, who stand between reconciliation and perpetual war.
A theater company recruits Jess, but when a Hollywood producer watches their show and is impressed by Jess's acting talents, bitter jealousy soon arises within the company.