During a cost-of-living crisis, a young mixed-race Scotswoman and a working-class singer from Dublin are evicted without warning. After a year homeless on the streets, their old landlord crosses their path, and they take him hostage.
During a cost-of-living crisis, a young mixed-race Scotswoman and a working-class singer from Dublin are evicted without warning. After a year homeless on the streets, their old landlord crosses their path, and they take him hostage.
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.