Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.
Uyuşturucu bağımlısı bir genç, televizyon bağımlısı annesi ve aralarında günden güne yükselen bir uçurum... Uyuşturucu batağı içerisindeki Harry’nin hayattaki tek amacı daha fazla uyuşturucuyken; umutsuz annesini hayata bağlayan tek şey en sevdiği yarışma programıdır. Bir gün bu yarışmaya katılmaya hak kazandığında tek derdi, ödül olan kırmızı elbiseye girebilmek olacaktır. Yaşlı ve mutsuz kadın zayıflama hapları kullanmaya başlar...
A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.