An (13) leaves a youth institution to move in with an adoptive family on a farm. She explores this unknown world, her new parents, and a little brother that has down syndrome. An observes this family and their environment, and cautiously tries to make this new place her home.
Büyük Buhran döneminde Ozark Dağları'nda geçen hikâyede Billy Coleman, iki av köpeği yavrusu satın alma hayalini gerçekleştirmek için iki yıl boyunca çalışır ve kazançlarını biriktirir. "Old Dan" ve "Little Ann" ile birlikte Cherokee topraklarının nehir yataklarında dolaşırken, macera ve trajedi dolu ezici zorluklarla karşılaştıkça Tanrı'ya olan güveni artar.
Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.
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.
Apartheid’in acımasız yüzüne tanık olan beyaz bir öğretmenin çarpıcı dönüşümü! Ben du Toit, sıradan bir hayat sürerken, bahçıvanının polis şiddetiyle öldürülen oğlu için adalet arayışına girer. Sistemin baskılarına rağmen gerçeklerin peşinden giden Ben, hukukun çaresizliğiyle yüzleşir.
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.