Mariam Barry

A Zimbabwean immigrant struggles to find a foothold until a gentle apartment caretaker named Gary reaches out to help her, in ways that exemplify the best of goodwill and empathy.

Seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence, young convict Bode Donovan joins a firefighting program that returns him to his small Northern California hometown, where he and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region.