Den mystiske fortid for en fiskerbådskaptajn, der bor i Caribien, begynder at hjemsøge ham og alt er ikke som det synes at være. Da hans smukke ekskone opsøger ham med et desperat råb om hjælp for at undsluppe sit voldlige ægteskab, afviser han hende hårdt. For måske er situationen ikke helt, som hun udlægger den, for hvad er egentlig hensigten med hendes henvendelse?
Georgia Rule følger en oprørsk, ukontrollabel teenager, der bliver trukket af sin dysfunktionelle mor for at tilbringe sommeren med sin bedstemor. Hendes rejse vil føre alle tre kvinder til afsløringer af begravede familiehemmeligheder og en forståelse af, at - uanset hvad der sker - de bånd, der binder, aldrig kan brydes.
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Jolana (18) is an object of her step-father's desire. She is unable to cope, especially when her own mother turns a blind eye. Those events are heavily paid for when she finds herself working in a brothel. Her inability to cope raise a question: What is it she actually wants? Are her dreams of escaping really better than the reality she finds herself in?
Inspired by a true story, Buffalo Boys follows the life of Ian, 15, who discovers the man who raised him is not his biological father, turning his world upside down.
The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, are much happier and she also recalls her colorful Aunt Starr -- who's visit is fun but also detrimental to her family's health. The setting of 1950s Las Vegas' bomb testing is increasingly significant to the development of the story.
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Ray, a twelve-year-old boy, must confront the British legal system when he is accused of murder.
An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.
Steve Moore is sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in emergency hospital visits, Cheryl's loyalty is to her boyfriend. To protect her relationship with John, she "ditches" her son, having him arrested and locked in a correctional "mental" facility, before coercing her older brother Burt, who lives in Hollywood, to take him. Steve quickly discovers that Burt cannot even provide temporary lodging, but an administrator at his new high school directs him to a shelter for runaway kids where he soon learns to navigate his way.
A crime writer gets involved in a murder investigation.
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.