Wealthy Tasnády György, unable to find joy amid the city’s postwar poverty, becomes enchanted by the delicate hand that feeds white doves in a grim neighborhood window. Tracking down the owner, professor Bartha’s gentle niece Erzsi, he befriends the family, overcomes his own loneliness and restores hope to both their lives.
Gusztáv Vándory
Bella Muzsnay
Jolán Kornélné Sziklay
Ila Lóth
Sándor Mészáros
Wealthy Tasnády György, unable to find joy amid the city’s postwar poverty, becomes enchanted by the delicate hand that feeds white doves in a grim neighborhood window. Tracking down the owner, professor Bartha’s gentle niece Erzsi, he befriends the family, overcomes his own loneliness and restores hope to both their lives.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
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.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
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.
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.