On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, and the headmaster's wife, agree to go search for her. As they do, they confront the lies, ghost stories, and demonization that their idyllic school was built on.
A coming of age story about a young girl, Ellie, who has the ability to see the future of her relationship with every boy she touches with her fingertips.
Darren, de 16 anos, era igual aos outros miúdos do seu bairro suburbano. Saía com os amigos, tinha boas notas na escola e raramente arranjava problemas. Mas quando ele e o seu melhor amigo descobrem um Circo dos Horrores ambulante, as coisas começam a mudar para Darren. É nesse preciso momento que um vampiro chamado Larten Crepsley o transforma em algo, bem sedento de sangue. O novo morto-vivo irá juntar-se ao Circo dos Horrores, um espectáculo ambulante cheio de criaturas monstruosas, desde um miúdo-cobra e um lobisomen, a uma mulher de barbas ou um apresentador gigante. Enquanto Darren vai descobrindo os seus poderes neste mundo sombrio, ele torna-se numa precioso peão entre vampiros e os seus mortíferos antagonistas. E na luta pela sobrevivência, tentará impedir que seja destruído aquilo que resta da sua humanidade.
The lives of a Hassidic young man (Yoyli) and a Polish young woman (Mariola) intersect when they find themselves secluded in a car after he offers her a ride home. This, after Yoyli and his mother picked her up from a street corner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Polish, immigrant women wait to be taken to Hassidic homes to help with the cleaning of their house. In the movie they negotiate the labor at $8 an hour. After scrubbing and scouring for a bit, and after observing a world that is completely foreign to her, Mariola succumbs to the toxic fumes of the cleaning agents and falls and faints. After regaining consciousness, she leaves the house in an angry huff. At the prodding of his sister and father, Yoyli goes out to find her and offer her a ride. She accepts not realizing the differences of their worlds that would place the two young people in a tense and heated situation that is never fully resolved.
