Bernard Fine's career leaves little time for romance, so fate takes over. When Bernie befriends a little girl, he meets - and falls for - her single mother, Liz. They soon marry and add a son to their new family. But the happiness is short-lived as Liz is fatally stricken by cancer. Added to the heartbreak is a threat from the past that could tear the family apart. For Bernie, it's a struggle to hold on to and savor the truly fine things in life.
As they enter their third year of medical school, a group of young students must prepare to decide what they intend to specialize in. Somehow, they must impress the Chief of Surgery while learning how to survive the life-and-death area of medicine and the complexity of their everyday lives.
Em um pequeno subúrbio, nas proximidades de um shopping center, uma mulher é atacada por um homem que usa máscara de esquiar. O marginal, no entanto acaba capturado por ela e passa a ser prisioneiro de sua própria vítima.
Prisioneiro da Guerra do Vietnã volta para a sociedade americana e encontra sua situação financeira totalmente mudada. Resolve então entrar para o crime organizado.
Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is nothing wrong with her except for some clumsiness, mostly caused by poor vision. State law (in 1934) requires sterilization of all inmates. Sympathetic nurse, Bonnie McNeil, befriends Marian and protests her treatment.
Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad-school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
Quando nasceu, Raun era um saudável e feliz bebê. Com o passar dos meses, seus pais começam a observar que há alguma coisa estranha com ele, sempre com um ar ausente. Um dia vem a confirmação do que suspeitavam: Raun tinha autismo. Decidem então penetrar no mundo da criança, acreditando que somente o milagre do amor poderia salvá-lo.
