Fear
A sequence of harsh events culminates in a triumphant confrontation with a rapist as a young woman has a birth of courage.
A sequence of harsh events culminates in a triumphant confrontation with a rapist as a young woman has a birth of courage.
A sequence of harsh events culminates in a triumphant confrontation with a rapist as a young woman has a birth of courage.
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
Young Macy is abducted by a deranged, monstrous figure who wants to raise her as its child.
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.
Plagued by an abusive childhood, a woman finds escape in competitive swimming, sexual experimentation, toxic relationships, and addiction before ultimately finding her voice through writing.
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.
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.