The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
A group of women, including Skipper, the wealthy young Jennifer and the domineering Nan, journey from the United States to South America in hopes of easily adopting children. Unfortunately, their plans are complicated by local laws that require the women to live in the foreign nation for an extended period before they can take in orphaned kids. While stuck in another country, the women bond as they share their aspirations and anxieties.
Firma planuje budowe kurortu na Florydzie (Sunshine State), co spotyka się ze sprzeciwem mieszkańców. Dwie, całkiem różne kobiety musza się uporać ze zmianami, bo ich życie i kariera dramatycznie sie zmieniają. Angela Bassett gra kobiete która powraca do swojego miasta rodzinnego po długiej nieobecności i wkracza w problemy mieszkańców oraz ludzi planujacych budowę kurortu, podczas gdy Edie Falco to kobieta która musi zrzec się czegoś, co wcześniej odziedziczyła.
In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds during harvest time.
Rafael is a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pressure from a tough-as-nails officer to help the Americans in their hunt for Filipino guerilla fighters. But Rafael's brother is the head of the local guerillas, and considers anyone who cooperates with the Americans to be a traitor. Rafael quickly finds himself forced to make the impossible, potentially deadly decisions faced by ordinary civilians in an occupied country.
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer- just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.