Giordano Gangl

1970年11月6日。ニューヨークは連続爆弾魔フィズル・ボマーの脅威にさらされていた。青年ジョンは場末のバーのバーテンダーに、女の子として生まれ孤児院で育ち、18歳の時に流れ者の男と恋に落ち子供を授かるが相手は蒸発、生まれた子は誘拐され行方知れずになってしまい、出産時に命の危機にさらされ男性となったという驚くべき身の上話をする。

Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.

Cody's childhood friend Mack provides a tip about a burglary in progress. Mack later turns up dead and Cody investigates another friend Jimmy Catter.