When a homeless handyman arrives in the small town of St. Johns, Oregon, the locals soon discover he has a supernatural gift for fixing their problems. Thing is, it's a complicated business, fixing things.
A dark night in a rundown world.
When Douglas Langley rescues homeless drifter Sherman Olney from two muggers in the alley behind his deli, Sherman returns the favor by fixing the shopkeeper’s failing freezer — oddly enough, with a stick of Juicy Fruit gum.
So, forgetting that no good deed goes unpunished, and believing he's a good judge of character, Douglas hires the hapless handyman on the spot and gives him a place to live above his shop. Little does he know that Sherman's ability to fix things is, well, supernatural.
It all starts simply enough: Sherman fixes one broken thing after another in the deli — the men's room's squeaky pipes, the clanking dishwasher and the cash register's sticky drawer. Of course, having witnessed the new handyman's talent, Douglas' customers start bringing in their own broken stuff to get fixed. Now he’s fixing everything from curling irons to chain saws and even clarinets.
But then Sherman turns his unique talent to saving a little boy from being crushed by a Mini Cooper about to burst into flames after an unfortunate sequence of events that, well, you’ll just have to see with your own eyes. In any case, Sherman ingeniously sets in motion a mechanical chain reaction that untangles a pile-up of crashed automobiles and enables him to drag the kid out from the jaws of death in the nick of time.
An overzealous news reporter calls it a miracle and word spreads about Sherman's amazing feat. Now people come from far and wide for his fixing. And the more they come, the more he moves from fixing their things to fixing their problems — like taxes, parking tickets and even marriages. Day by day, Sherman's fixing becomes more and more magical, until...
Somebody dies and he brings that somebody back from the dead.
Oops. Now we’re talking a real miracle.
Yeah. You can guess what happens next (but you’ll never guess how it ends). Imagine a scene from the Dark Ages: a misunderstood mystic with supernatural healing powers pursued by a desperate mob wielding torches in the dead of night — half of them believing he’s the son of God, the other half, the son of Satan. How would such a scene play out our time? A thousand people — and scores of TV news crews, helicopters and emergency vehicles — descend on that lonely little town. They’re all after Sherman. Some want his fix. Others want his crucifixion. Some are just there for the show.
The thing is, Sherman has one final fix that will truly change their lives. Well, for most of them, anyway.
