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In Cold War-era West Berlin, American Coca-Cola executive C.R. 'Mac' MacNamara is tasked with playing babysitter to his boss' spoiled 17-year-old daughter Scarlett, who proves more difficult than anticipated when she reveals that she is pregnant by a Communist.

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.

ซินเธียอาศัยอยู่ในลอนดอนกับลูกสาวที่เป็นคนกวาดถนน พี่ชายของเธอประสบความสำเร็จกับธุรกิจช่างภาพและตอนนี้ก็อาศัยอยู่ในบ้านหรูใกล้ๆ กัน แต่ซินเธียก็ไม่ได้รับเชิญให้ไปที่นั่นเลยหลังจากผ่านไปหนึ่งปี ดังนั้นเธอจึงรู้สึกเหงาและโดดเดี่ยว ขณะเดียวกัน ในอีกส่วนหนึ่งของเมือง ฮอร์เทนเซ่ซึ่งถูกอุปการะตั้งแต่เกิดแต่ตอนนี้โตเป็นผู้ใหญ่แล้ว เริ่มพยายามตามหาแม่ของเธอ

Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.

เบธ วัยรุ่นผู้รักการอ่านหนังสือ ผูกมิตรกับเอมีเลีย นักเขียนนวนิยายผู้ใฝ่ฝันซึ่งเพิ่งมาถึงเมืองนี้ ไม่นานเอมีเลียก็เริ่มมีความสัมพันธ์กับพ่อของเบธ ซึ่งก่อให้เกิดผลร้ายแรงตามมา

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.