Banks Child
Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in poorer districts of South Central Los Angeles.
Angela
A man who despises his upwardly mobile lawyer brother reluctantly agrees to be best man at his wedding.
A single mother ekes out a living from welfare check to welfare check, struggling to provide for her daughter.
Stan's Daughter
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.
