丽兹（索拉·伯奇 Thora Birch饰）出生在美国的贫民窟里，月新从小就开始承受着家庭的千疮百孔，月新父母酗酒吸毒，母亲患上了精神分裂症。贫穷的丽兹需要出去乞讨，流浪在城市的角落，生活的苦难似乎无穷无尽。随着慢慢成长，丽兹知道，只有读书成才方能改变自身命运，走出泥潭般的现况。她从老师那里争取到一张试卷，漂亮的完成答卷，争取到了读书的机会。从现在起，丽兹在漫漫的求学路上开始了征程。她千方百计申请哈佛的全额奖学金，面试时候连一件像样的衣服也没有。然而，贫困并没有止住丽兹前进的决心，在她的人生里面，从不退缩的奋斗是永恒主题。
孙紫晴
回复 :Ruth is searching for her father – a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Desperation drives her to work without a permit, at a massage parlour, where she gives ‘happy endings’ to unfulfilled men. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the backdrop for Ruth's quest as she struggles to find her independence and space even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the city's underbelly.
林黛
回复 :高中生萨迪和妹妹索耶尔沉浸在丧母之痛中，但却无法从身为心理治疗师的父亲威尔身上得到任何安慰。某天一名绝望的病患前来拜访威尔寻求治疗，却意外带来骇人的超自然生物，一连串不合理的事件接连发生，恐惧将吞噬他们一家人。
傅小洋
回复 :From the beekeeper who accidentally kills his wife before nervously burying her body under his vegetable patch, the child born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite, to the detective struggling with a number of missing children cases, these stories make this the creepiest horror anthology of the year.
