Curt Frisk

マシューがリサに初めて会った瞬間から、それは彼の強迫観念になります。 彼女は店の窓の前を通り、シカゴのウィッカーパーク周辺で働いています。彼は夢中になります。 彼女は彼に従い、彼らは出会い、すぐに恋に落ちます。 彼らの関係のすべては、ある日彼女が跡形もなく姿を消すまで完璧です。

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.

舞台はシカゴ。消防士の父、デニスに連れられ火災現場に赴いた少年ブライアンは父の大活躍に大喜び。だが次の瞬間、父は同僚・アドコックスを庇い殉職。幼い少年は、父の死をただ呆然と立ちつくしながら見守るしかなかった。それから20年後。兄・スティーブンと同じく亡父の跡を継ぐかのようにブライアンは消防士となった。念願かなったかに見えたが、配属先はよりにもよって兄・スティーブンが隊長を務め、過激な任務遂行ぶりで知られる第17分隊であった。

After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to do but sell what material possessions she has, such as the family pick-up truck and the house, and move into an apartment in the city, namely Baltimore. Beth just wants to survive by finding a job she doesn't dislike, and keep her family together while trying to maintain her sanity and sense of self-worth