Old Woman
An increasingly obsessed detective chases an escaped rapist across the Southwest and enters into a complicated relationship with one of the victims.
Polly Travis
This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
Mrs. Colton
A Dallas museum tour guide finds herself having dreams that foretell killings that are attributed to a killer known as "The Perfect Murderer." She asks her boyfriend, a police detective, for help.
Board Member #1
A doctor and his daughter find themselves on opposing sides of the controversial topic of abortion.
Anna Nelson
A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger brothers and sisters together as a family after their parents abandoned them, despite a bureaucrat's insistence that it is impossible to locate a single foster home for all five.
Miss Opie
The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Huckaby, one of the teachers and girls' vice principal.
A film company arrives in a small town to shoot a biker movie. The film's director encourages his actors to "live" their parts, and the results are clashes with the townspeople that end in murder.
No tempo em que o “Oeste” dos EUA se estendia somente até o Texas e a Califórnia, a região começava a receber os primeiros colonos brancos. Havia uma severa carência de mulheres entre os trabalhadores da fazenda de Roy Whitman, no vale da Califórnia. Assim, Whitman vai até Chicago, no leste, para recrutar 150 mulheres que desejassem se tornar esposas de seus empregados.
