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　　2005年圣节前3天，电子游戏设计员米正在赶制全新游戏－极乐迷宫，准备在圣诞日推出面大量发售．岂料异变突然发生，游戏里的主角苏被病毒感染产生自主意志，厌倦了打打杀杀无限续局的残酷生涯，要求杰米删除游戏程式，另一边厢，电脑集团又派人催促杰米赶快交货，进退维谷的，他只好兵行险著，策动一场网络革命……

　　Sheila Hood is an ex-cop whose marriage is on the rocks. Rather than confronting her husband about an affair, she hides surveillance cameras in her home and watches his transgressions, becoming a voyeur of her own life. Her husband, Tom Kale, is an ornithologist who begins an affair with an ex-girlfriend, Merle James, whose beauty and fragility echoes that of the birds he studies. Ray Starling, the charismatic owner of a boutique hotel, is Merle’s lover, and has dealings with her father, Mr James, a powerful oil baron who operates in the shadows but whose influence touches the whole city. Merle’s younger sister, Hazel, is also drawn to Tom, but trapped in Starling’s web of power. Calvin is an cop whose loyalty to his ex partner, Hood, is tested when mounting evidence from her own surveillance tapes connects her and Tom to Starling’s murder, and perhaps even Merle’s mysterious death.

　　从小失去双亲的玛丽娜18岁了，为了申请奖学金，她必须离开养父母，前往大西洋海岸，从她从未谋面的祖父母处获得签名。新姨妈、叔叔、堂亲，她在众多新家人间周旋，不确定自己是会被接纳还是排斥。这段旅途唤醒了玛丽娜尘封已久的情感，揭开家族往昔的隐秘创伤，她由此拼凑起那些支离破碎、往往矛盾的记忆碎片，试图重现她几乎遗忘的父母身影。