Una inexperta maestra es contratada como profesora de un grupo de chicos difíciles, cada uno de los cuales es un problema social en sí mismo. Pero aunque la tarea es difícil y la rigidez de la dirección del centro no ayuda, la voluntariosa maestra intentará que los chicos lleguen a graduarse.
Jane Morgan gives birth to her baby at the hospital. When she wakes up the next morning, the hospital tells her, that her son died at birth. However from ultrasound reading she had before, she knew she was having a girl. Now the hospital is stone-walling her, saying she is just in denial, due to her loss. Now she is trying to fight the system, to find evidence of the apparent mistake by the hospital. Only it wasn't the hospital's mistake. Nurse Rita Donohue is the one who made the switch. She faked a pregnancy to hang on to her roving boyfriend. But she grabbed the wrong baby, her boyfriend wants a son, so now she's faking a second pregnancy, and making plans to get another baby.
Deloris Van Cartier es una mediocre cantante de cabaret. Su amante Vince ha cometido un crimen, y ella decide acogerse al programa policial de protección de testigos. Así, Deloris consigue una nueva identidad como monja en un convento que, tan sólo con su presencia, perderá su habitual tranquilidad.
Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.
For her upcoming exhibition, "Apology," Lily, a New York conceptual artist, is designing a sound and sculpture installation inspired by the testimony of anonymous phone callers who, after responding to a public advert inviting them to spill their guts, leave messages on her answering machine. When one caller confesses to a murder, Lily begins to suspect that the mystery man may be intending a little "performance" of his own: her death.
