![]() ![]() When she makes her way through the trapdoor, Jessie finds the Clifton tourist site and blends in by pretending to be a touring student. ![]() ![]() Her little sister, Katie, has recently become sick herself. Despite the risk of violent capture and punishment, Jessie agrees. She gives Jessie the number of a man named Isaac Neeley who Ma believes will help secure medicine and report the Clifton founders to the board of health. Ma asks Jessie to sneak out of Clifton through a rock which hides a trapdoor and find a payphone. Clifton is really a historical preserve where the villagers are not allowed to leave or receive modern medicine, while tourists watch them via hidden cameras and two-way mirrors. Ma then reveals that the year is actually 1996 and that the sick children have a disease called diphtheria. When Ma asks Jessie to secretly meet her the next night at a hidden rock, Jessie is suspicious. Many children have been getting sick lately. One night, she helps her mother, the village midwife, treat two sick children. ![]() Jessie Keyser lives in Clifton, Indiana, a small village on the American frontier in what she believes in 1840. ![]()
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