Marie Yardly Kavanagh

Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.

Лора разочарована в любви и в мужчинах, она мечется в поисках якоря, который помог бы ей найти своё место в жизни. Этим якорем для Лоры становится Ева — шестнадцатилетняя девушка-пианистка, которая тоже несчастна из-за своей деспотичной матери. Между Лорой и Евой возникает связь — напряжённая и болезненная.

Lake is in a straight relationship with Desiree but finds himself becoming attracted to men at the pool. When he cannot control his desires any longer, he starts working at an adult home and begins a relationship with a much, much older man.

Nydia occupies her days by completing household chores and secretly reading poetry. Aspiring to escape a mapped out fate, she accepts a motorcycle ride invitation downtown from Jeff, a mysterious classmate of hers.

Amanda, a brilliant aeronautical engineer, is enraged when her breakthrough design is stolen and patented by her colleague Brendan. When he is found murdered, she becomes the prime suspect and soon finds she is not only fighting for her design - but fight for her life - as someone out there is determined to silence her protest for good.

Ronald, an eight year-old biracial boy, sees his life turning upside down after witnessing the brutal murder of his mother by his father. Often moved from one foster home to the next, Ronald is recruited by a street gang where he dwells in a life of crime and violence. As he waits for his father to be released to avenge his mother, he realizes that he doesn't have to follow his father's footsteps or the path chosen for him. Against all odds, he takes control of his own destiny. His awakening to new humane values enables him to change change course despite the obvious risk of losing the only family he has ever known.