Charlie Babbitt uskoo pääsevänsä miljooniin käsiksi, kun varakas isäpappa kuolee. Mutta tosi yllätys odottaa! Isä on testamentannut omaisuutensa toiselle pojalleen Raymondille, jonka olemassaoloa Charlie ei ole edes muistanut! Raymond on yllättävä, laitoshoidossa elävä, vaikeasta autismista kärsivä veli. Pitkällä lomamatkalla mantereen halki, outo ja arvaamaton Raymond saa Charlien miettimään asioita moneen kertaan.
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable – busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot spot. But Dalton's romance with the gorgeous Dr. Clay puts him on the bad side of cutthroat local big shot Brad Wesley.
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.
PI Joe Wong is one of the best in the business, operating from his base in San Francisco. One day a woman walks into Wong's office and asks for his help. She needs him to find her missing husband Aldo. This takes Wong on a journey though the world of the criminal. Along the way he encounters a father and son team of Solomon and Bones. Wong ends up getting involved in a gang was between Malcolm Boyd and Aldo, the man he was supposed to be looking for