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高中辍学生玛利亚告诉家人自己怀孕后,父亲倒毙地上,母亲把她踢出家门,男朋友弃她而去。于是她孤零零一个人无家可归。此时她遇上马修。他是个修理电子器械很有天分的高中毕业生,但他有个原则:质量至上,这使得他每份工作都做不长久。当玛利亚接受了马修的帮助,他们便展开一段令彼此发生转变的关系……
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.。一个名叫雷肖恩的年轻的黑人伊拉克战争老兵发现自己在新奥尔良特警队的摊牌,并试图通过与一个同情他的军官的方式摆脱这种情况。。本剧通过男主角王晓帅患有阅读障碍的成长过程展开,上学期间经历了一次又一次挫折,在应试教育的体制下,王晓帅不断的突破自己,提升自己的学习能力,得到了家人和朋友的认可。同时也反映了在当今社会仍然有一部分人群患有阅读障碍,没有得到足够的重视或者误解,在此同时,本剧对哥哥王晓冉和弟弟王晓帅之间的爱与情,割与舍之间,直接的对这种先天病(阅读障碍)的认知与了解,充分说明它是可以完全治愈的。剧中哥哥王晓冉遇到挫折就逃避,遇到麻烦就不做,和弟弟王晓帅形成鲜明的对比,而弟弟王晓帅的成功,无疑不点醒那些遇到困难总想逃避,总想着走捷径就能成功,不劳而获的人。。