Donn Gift

Années 1870. Dans la magnifique région marécageuse des Everglades en Floride, la famille Baxter peine à subsister. Malgré la nature foisonnante environnante, Jody se sent un peu seul dans ce coin perdu, surtout que, trop couvé par sa mère qui craint de perdre encore un enfant, ses moments de liberté sont limités. Un jour, il décide pour lui tenir compagnie, d’adopter un jeune faon dont lui et son père viennent de tuer la mère au cours d’une tragique partie de chasse. C’est le début d’une grande amitié entre l’enfant et l’animal, mais aussi une douloureuse étape qui marquera la fin de l’enfance de Jody...

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.

Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.