Nancy Kriegel

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

ニュー・オリンズ。“希望の家”で働くシスター・ヘレンは死刑囚マシューからの手紙を受け取り、彼と接見する事になった。マシューは相棒が無期懲役なのに自分が死刑になる事に憤りを感じている。ヘレンは特赦を得ようと弁護士の協力を仰ぐが嘆願は却下され、残るは州知事への直訴だけとなった。被害者の両親たちからは敵と見なされ非難を浴びるヘレン。しかし毎日、アドバイザーとしてマシューと会い話をしていくうちに二人の心は繋がっていく。が、やがて処刑の日が訪れた……。

Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.