Unlike most people, Melody cannot walk or talk, but she is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her. Her classmates dismiss her as mentally challenged but Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy.
炎炎烈日下，17岁的珀迪和他15岁的弟弟马肯齐相依为命，艰难求生。珀迪在一家酒店大楼里打扫卫生，马肯齐偷窃游客钱财。在青春期的鲁莽和成年人生活的艰难中，他们不得不在这个令人心碎的甜蜜旅程中相互支持。这或许是他们青春期的最后一个夏天。
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.
