福斯托和纳丁在巴黎一家酒店第一次认识，他们都很脆弱，孤独，渴望拥有幸福。福斯托是移居法国的意大利人，作为一个服务员他希望自己能有所作为，但一直未果，而纳丁是一个年轻而美丽的法国姑娘。他们双双坠入爱河，两人的命运从此交织在一起。

There isn't much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachusetts, a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich. So when Edward Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel security, gets a late-night alarm from the home of one of his wealthiest clients, Doyle Cutler, he does a routine check and thinks nothing more of it—until a local student claims that she was sexually assaulted that night at Cutler’s house.Edward soon finds himself drawn into the girl's story, and his investigation leads him to his old girlfriend, whose teenage son may know the truth about what happened that night. Security is a timely, wry, and riveting story of adults and children, secret lives and civic culture, suspicion and sexual hysteria.

西罗的身体正沉没在那不勒斯海湾的黑色水域里，在下沉的过程中，记忆不断涌现上来，水声与逃跑者的尖叫声混杂在一起。1980年发生了地震，大楼通通倒塌，破碎的瓦砾下，传出了婴儿的哭声。十年后，当初的婴儿已经长大，他无父无母，在那不勒斯的街头苟且活着。长期以来的经历都是他犯罪道路上最生动的教材，他也因此成为了——命硬仔西罗。