"Karl wants to start over. Arnold won't let him."
Karl wants to start over. After he is released from prison, his only wish is to go underground and put his past behind him. However, his former companion Arnold puts a spoke in his wheel. He wants the money back that Karl stole from him before he was caught. At first Karl is not very impressed, but when Arnold uses Sarah, an important person in Karl's life, as a bargaining chip, Karl is forced to act.
Karl wants to start over. After he is released from prison, his only wish is to go underground and put his past behind him. However, his former companion Arnold puts a spoke in his wheel. He wants the money back that Karl stole from him before he was caught. At first Karl is not very impressed, but when Arnold uses Sarah, an important person in Karl's life, as a bargaining chip, Karl is forced to act.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
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.
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.