A Child of the Ghetto

Çok uzun yıllar kaldığı hapishaneden çıktıktan sonra bulaşıkçı olarak çalışmaya başlayan, çalıştığı yerin arkasındaki bir çöp tenekesinde terk edilmiş bir bebek bulan Russ Millings’in hikâyesini anlatıyor. Bebek için ne yapacağından pek emin olamayan Russ, bir süre sonra bu bebeğin hayatını düzene sokmak konusunda önemli bir fırsat olduğunu fark eder.

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Sorunlu bir genç kadın ölmüş olan annesine benzeyen gizemli genç komşusuna saplantılı hale gelir...

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.