The warm hearted and feisty Jo March returns (now as Jo Bhaer) and together with husband Friedrich and the inheritance of an estate from Aunt March, opens Plumfield Estate, an unconventional school based on individuality and diversity. Jo's own boys, a number of rescued orphans and her nieces are all encouraged to be kind, helpful and self sufficient, tending their own gardens and running their own businesses. Fun and learning go hand in hand and pillow fights are even permitted on Saturdays. Personal relationships are key to the school, as well as to the novel and the lovable characters get up to plenty of scrapes and adventures, but in the end, even the troublesome among them find redemption in the love and support of the extended March family.