Mina, a battered daughter, has left home to separate herself from her father's constant abuse and pain. As she scoured the streets of Manila, where she met Denise, a free-spirited girl who introduced Mina to the reality of what reality meant.

After the death of a Southern preacher, his ne'er-do-well daughter returns home to collect her inher...

A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a ...

Raised in the South African township of Zamelda, Johannes 'JoJo' Radebe faced prejudice as a young b...

Inside a drab middle school in 1992, a sexually-confused eighth-grader attempts to regain his dignit...

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by mea...

A night in the woods, and its aftermath, helps Otter with a major life decision. He's a high school ...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic li...

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findi...

Growing up in Greenville, Texas, Bart Millard suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of h...

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remembe...

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and f...

Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man...

Lucy, a self-styled teenage rebel, wants to leave the painful, boring world of her high school and s...

Haunted by memories of his father murdering a family, Arlis Sweeney prefers to keep to himself, focu...

Andri, an anxious teenage boy, hides and represses his sexuality in fear of his masculine father's r...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most con...

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jare...