100 years after nurse Wallace "Buster" Pickering died citizens of the late 21st century in the town of Plainfield, New Hampshire will find their village can now use the fund he left at his death to relieve their misfortunes and send poor children to college. The humble man who ran away from immigrant parents as a teenager became a nurse to the richest people in America. He could choose his future. He chose a young woman from a New Hampshire village, followed her home, and there they stayed the rest of their lives. His love for her became his love for her hometown, and for its future. This is the story of love and its best consequences.