Mary Goggin

A satirical romance set to the backdrop of an apocalyptic blizzard that threatens to engulf Manhattan.

Charlie, a socially inept young man, compulsively confesses every detail of his anti-social behavior to his mother, Hazel, with whom he still lives in Harlem. When his mother asks him to finally move out of her apartment, Charlie is forced to confront his greatest fears - losing his only life witness and living in a world without his only friend and confidante.

35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money, he needs a job but has no prospects, he still shares an apartment with his widowed father, and the premature death of his mother has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with Stephanie, the 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.

An idealistic young inventor tries to heal the world with cornstarch.

郊外の住宅街に住む主婦のサラは、近所の公園で司法試験の合格を目指す子連れの主夫ブラッドと出会った。いつしかお互いに惹かれあい、気持ちを抑えきれなくなっていくふたり。そんな中、街では元受刑者のロニーが釈放され問題となっていた。ブラッドの友人で元警官のラリーは、子供たちを守るためにロニーを糾弾するビラを街中に貼りまわる。それぞれが日常から少しずつはみ出した行動をとりはじめる街の人々。それはまさに“大人になりきれない大人たち”の行動。やがて街は大きな事件に巻き込まれていく…。