作为家庭中年纪最小的成员萨姆因为害怕家人离开后的孤独而在度假小岛上开始了自己秘密的孤独训练而岛上古灵精怪的女孩苔丝则绞尽脑汁想要和素未谋面的生父见面萨姆没想到这暑假的怦然心动不仅会打乱他培养自己适应孤独的训练安排还会将他带入另一场冒险旅程中在这个悠长的夏日假期里两人相依为伴收获了最美好的记忆萨姆也意识到人生并非一座孤岛相伴本身就是意义
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson#39;s interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey#39;s protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey#39;s young nephew John