James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

Having just moved to a new town, widow Elaine Freedman and her teenage daughter Justine are greeted by the effusive, terribly nice Dr. Calvin Lawrence. Sensing that Justine is bit testy and out of sorts, Dr. Lawrence recommends that she begin taking a special vitamin which he manufactures in his own home. Before long, Justine is the model of perfection -- just like all the other teenagers in town.

A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a Mexican gang.