An orphan in 1600s Rome survives by selling forged Caravaggios to tourists. The real talent in his fakes catches the eye of the master himself, and earns him a place in the workshop as his apprentice.
Mateo Vale, a young Manhattan forensic psychiatrist, has a gift: in his interviews, people open up and surrender the truths they meant to keep buried, answers that only lead to more unsettling questions.
An impoverished aristocratic widow spends the last of her fortune on the hungry, the abandoned, and the wounded, asking only that each one pass the kindness on.