Akemi Sasagawa is a single woman in her 50s who has worked as a milk delivery for over 30 years. Through the conversations with her younger colleagues, Akemi becomes deeply frustrated by the gender discrimination that she has endured, has remained intact over time. For herself and the future generation, Akemi attempts to challenge it on her own.
Fukiko Hara
Mari Ichihara
Mayumi Kanetani
Sato Takehito
Shingo Akamatsu
Akemi Sasagawa is a single woman in her 50s who has worked as a milk delivery for over 30 years. Through the conversations with her younger colleagues, Akemi becomes deeply frustrated by the gender discrimination that she has endured, has remained intact over time. For herself and the future generation, Akemi attempts to challenge it on her own.
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.
A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.