A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
When the dreamy high school star quarterback crashes (literally) into her life, a precocious high school cheerleader's dream of escaping her small town and earning a coveted dance scholarship to CalArts is thrown into question.
改遍自Jeff Hobbs的传记作品《The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace》这本书的主人公是一个新泽西州纽瓦克贫民窟里长大的男孩子，名叫罗伯特皮斯。他被耶鲁大学生物学专业录取，却在三十岁的时候，在贩毒帮派的斗殴中暴死街头。故事以罗伯特的耶鲁室友为叙述者，以旁观者的角度讲述了这个看似从原生阶级逆袭，而依然无法逃离悲剧命运的故事。The story of an inner-city Newark kid who attends Yale yet ultimately suc cumbs to harsh economic realities and the demons of his past.
