Después de la muerte de su madre, una joven regresa a su hogar en las Cataratas del Niágara y se enreda en el recuerdo de un secuestro que afirma haber presenciado de niña.
Miriam, Derek, Ian y Jenny son estudiantes de secundaria muy por encima del promedio y siguen las reglas en todo momento. Excelentes calificaciones, bueno en los deportes, muchas actividades y, cuando el curso lo permite, cometer asesinatos elaborados.
Blake Conway es una joven estudiante de último curso universitario. Aspirante a periodista y aterrorizada por graduarse, debido a las pocas expectativas que tiene en la vida y una deuda estudiantil a la que tiene que hacer frente. Tratará de escribir su historia y la falta de romanticismo que invade su vida para ganar un generoso premio de la universidad.
Two bodies lying in the road. A hauntingly sterile emergency room. A girl crying out for her Father: God. One by one, all of the players in her life, angels and devils alike, emerge and illuminate how she ended up in this liminal consciousness between life and death. It is both in this consciousness and her previous existence that she begins to understand why God had forsaken her and how she can be redeemed. Dreamlike, visceral, and at times surreal, It's Hard to Be Human elegantly poses the age-old questions of what it means to be human and how to have a connection with the Divine in a fallibly human world.
After the anxiety of taking a home pregnancy test causes GWEN to faint on her bathroom floor, she is forced to have a discussion with the personified Voices in Her Head: ROMANTIC, REBEL, ANALYTIC and FEAR - each unabashedly offering their opinions on what her future should look like.
When a call from home interrupts her fun weekend plans, Sabrina travels to the suburbs to visit her mom, Ruby. Ruby welcomes her impatient daughter with a home cooked lunch and a request: teach her to ride a bicycle. Sabrina begrudgingly obliges. Together mom and daughter struggle through a bicycle lesson that becomes increasingly humorous as personalities clash and frustrations mount. But when Sabrina cuts the lesson short and returns the bicycle to the garage, she discovers a disturbing secret that her mother has kept from her. A secret that not only forces them to deal with their broken relationship but also has promise to bring them closer in a way that neither of them expected.
