The Bootleggers

Bir inanç krizinin ardından çıktığı spiritüel yolculuk, tanınmış fundamentalist vaiz Carlton Pearson'ın değer verdiği her şeyi riske atar.

İki kararlı anne, bir tanesi bir öğretmen çocuklarının şehir okulunda çöken iç dünyalarını dönüştürmeye çalışmak için çaba harcamaktadırlar. Güçlü ve engelleyici bir bürokrasiyle başa çıkmak zorundadırlar fakat eğitim sisteminde ve çocuklarının gelecekleri için gerekli değişimi yaratmak amacıyla herşeylerini riske atarlar.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

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.

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.