Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war.
Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.
A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.
숨돌릴 틈 없이 새로운 환자가 밀려드는 뉴욕 시립병원 응급실. 벌거벗은 채 밤거리를 질주하다 쓰러졌다는 환자를 맡게 된 기아는 도무지 종잡을 수 없는 증상에 당황한다. 중년의 나이, 대머리, 심각한 망상증을 보이던 그는 결국 사망하고, 환자의 시체는 물론 그에 관련된 모든 의료기록이 감쪽같이 사라져 버리는 사건이 발생한다. 마약 중독자에 무연고 부랑자로 추정되는 그 환자가 사라진 미스터리에 대해 병원측에서는 아무도 관심을 갖지 않는데...
