馬里亞諾·德·桑蒂斯是意大利共和國總統。此人與現實中的任何總統均無關聯，完全是作者虛構的人物。他喪偶多年，且信奉天主教，有一個女兒名叫多羅泰亞——和他一樣，女兒也是一名法律學者。任期即將結束之際，在波瀾不驚的日常中，兩項最后的職責擺在了他面前：就兩份敏感的總統特赦申請做出決定。這些抉擇構成了真正的道德困境，并且以看似無法理清的方式，與他的私人生活糾纏在了一起。在疑慮的驅使下，他必須做出抉擇。而這位杰出的意大利總統，懷著強烈的責任感，必將履行這份職責。

　　After serving two years on a military outpost in the middle of an ocean – four soldiers are waiting for a new crew to replace them. When the long-awaited boat finally appears, it’s empty with no relief on board. When trying to find out what happened to the boat and the missing crew, they realize they’ve lost all communications with home. Cut off from the rest of the world and no one coming to get them, Baines, Sullivan, Cassidy and Hendryx must fight with suspicions about each other and find a new way to get home. If home still exists.

　　Robbins is sentenced to prison for the assassination of his general officer, a prison you leave only when you die. Since nobody ever leaves the prison, nobody knows what the prison is like. The prison manager realizes this and buys himself an island playground called "Absolom," where the worst prisoners are free to create an isolated barbaric society, and where the strongest men rule...a living hell. Robbins is sent to Absolom after he almost kills the prison manager.

1930年代的阿爾及利亞，冷漠的法國人默爾索對生命徹底漠然。他的情感疏離最終導致一場謀殺，隨后的審判不僅審視罪行，更拷問其靈魂。改編自加繆小說《局外人》。