Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides for the household through his trade in meat declared unfit for human consumption. This situation has sufficed for years but the dedication with which Jacob watches over his little sister leaves her no room to mature as a woman...

After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer....

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of sca...

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 19...

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ra...

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, e...

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who...

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose live...

A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later...

After learning that her sister, Faith, has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe, an 18-year-old hip...

The matriarch of a traditional Turkish family tries to stop her eldest daughter’s divorce, only to c...

Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Will...

Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye ...

Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical...

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she ...

Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 193...

The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to ...

Join Little Joe and his rootin' tootin' French pea brothers on an adventure that will take them from...

With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their moth...