Meio Éden

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

เดวีย์ กอร์ดอน นักมวยชาวนิวยอร์กที่กำลังจะหมดสัญญาอาชีพ ตกหลุมรักกลอเรีย ไพรซ์ นักเต้น แต่ความสัมพันธ์ที่กำลังเบ่งบานของพวกเขากลับต้องสะดุดลงเมื่อวินเซนต์ ราปัลโล เจ้านายจอมรุนแรงของกลอเรีย ผู้มีสายตาจับจ้องกลอเรีย ทั้งสองตัดสินใจหนีออกจากเมือง แต่ก่อนที่พวกเขาจะทำได้ วินเซนต์และพวกอันธพาลก็ลักพาตัวกลอเรียไป และเดวีย์ถูกบังคับให้ออกตามหาเธอในมุมที่เสื่อมโทรมที่สุดของเมือง โดยมีศัตรูซ่อนตัวอยู่ในเงามืด

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

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.

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 psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.