Receptionist
A charismatic Real Estate agent, Kevin Coe, is publicly proud of his mother, a prominent socialite, but privately he must put up with her constant belittlements and taunts. And while his latest girlfriend starts discovering the depths of his anguish, no one connects him with a long series of violent rapes that have been troubling the area.
Nurse Lena Boucher
A murderous psycho breaks out of a mental hospital and goes after his rich uncle who killed his father and raped his mother.
Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience that includes an assault. Afterwards, one of the girls and her family seek justice against an unfair legal system.
Receptionist
Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional turmoil it causes for her. It also shows how the changes impact her husband, George, and their children. The film also looks at the process by which families can be educated and supported to deal with the impact of the disease, as well as what is done for those afflicted.
Mildred
When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those around him, particularly his wife.
Ladies' Room Inspector
1941. Como los Estados Unidos han decidido ya intervenir en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) y falta mano de obra en las fábricas, son muchas las mujeres que se incorporan, por primera vez, al mundo laboral. Entre ellas, dos vecinas, viejas enemigas, que tendrán que olvidar cuentas pendientes y librar su guerra particular. Su principal problema son las burlas, el desprecio y las atrevidas proposiciones de sus compañeros de trabajo. Una de ellas, casada, tiene al marido en la guerra; la otra, soltera, pretendía ser cantante hasta que su novio eligió a otra para que interpretara sus canciones.
Doctor / Nurse / Orderly
Frances Farmer debuta en el cine con sólo 23 años. Es hermosa e inteligente, y muchos le auguran una brillante carrera. Pero es, además, una persona poco convencional, algo que en el Hollywood de los años treinta no se considera precisamente una cualidad. Tras un fracaso sentimental, se da a la bebida y emprende el camino de la autodestrucción. Su madre, una mujer autoritaria, obtiene la custodia legal y la interna en un hospital psiquiátrico, donde es sometida a electrochoques y a una cura de insulina. Frances se encuentra al borde del abismo y no le queda más que una esperanza: recurrir a su mejor amigo, Harry York.
