Bruce Francis Cole

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

Walter, un inmigrante de Angola, se reúne tras 17 años con su hija y su mujer en los Estados Unidos. Con el tiempo se han convertido en un grupo de extraños que comparten un apartamento de una habitación. Sin embargo, descubren una misma pasión por la danza que les ayudará a superar la distancia que existe entre ellos.

Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds comfort in a questionable friendship with a self-destructive neighbor, leading both on a startling path to self discovery.

Summer es una chica de 17 años que tiene una forma peculiar de entender el mundo. Para ella, la libertad y el respeto al prójimo son lo más importante. Sin embargo, su vida cambia radicalmente cuando su madre, una popular meteoróloga de televisión, se convierte inesperadamente al Islam, transformando su personalidad en el proceso. Summer comienza a plantearse su propia identidad y la de las personas que la rodean.

The story is set in the late 1980s in Chicago. Two children, born to a Korean mother and African-American father, are forced to live with the tangled consequences of their parents' decisions while struggling to traverse a new life in the Windy City.

James Wallace is a young American. To him Mexico was just another adventure in a life lived without any grand plans. A place to go where nobody knew who you were and nobody cared. A chance to drop out and get by within Mexico's flourishing underground economy. When he finds himself working as a 'surgeon' in Carlos Melgarejos' burgeoning organ trafficking ring things start looking up. But that was before he met Rosalita, a prostitute at the amateur lucha libre whose profound beauty shakes his insouciance. Suddenly there's more to life than cutting out kidneys south of the border. James wants out and he wants to take Rosalita with him. For Carlos this is more than just another headache in a life filled with niggling trespasses, this is personal.

A young widow, Senora Paloma Ruiz, is perversely ambushed by Colonel Blanca, the very man who orchestrated the torture of her husband during Argentina's notorious 'Dirty War'.

Summer, a teen prostitute has lived on the streets of Los Angeles most of her life. Living in a condemned apartment on the wrong side of the tracks with her naive boyfriend. Summer dreams of the day when she will leave town. After a bout with an abusive client and an altercation with a belligerent pimp, she finds a personal truth that cannot be ignored: There is always someone worth living for.