80 Steps to Jonah

Mark Winters is a fugitive, wanted by the police in Nevada for grand theft auto and manslaughter. It is all based on Mark being found injured in a totaled stolen vehicle off the side of the road in the driver's seat, while the other person in the vehicle was thrown during the accident, he who eventually succumbed to his injuries. Mark's story: he was hitchhiking when he was picked up by the now dead man, who he didn't know otherwise. Sensing an opportunity, Mark escaped from police custody, hence his current fugitive status. A migratory worker, Mark stumbles across Logandale, a summer camp outside of Reno for blind children, owned and operated by Tracy Rutledge, who is blind herself from an accident when she was a teenager, that accident which claimed her parent's lives, and Nonna, who has long been a servant in the Rutledge household. Mark, using his middle name Jonah, is mistaken by Tracy as the new handyman, and decides to stay, albeit temporarily, until their true handyman arrives. But Jonah ends up being a positive effect on the children, and visa versa. In addition, Tracy starts to fall in love with him. Jonah may only be able to hide out there for so long before his fugitive status comes to light, the implications of which he may not want inflicted on his new family. Meanwhile, he is being pursued by many, including a couple of Humboldt County sheriffs, and a part time police detective named Barney Glover, who is vacationing in Reno.