Lucy
Andrew Rodman is running the family business and failing at it. The workers are out on strike and things are getting desperate. “Papa would have known what to do,” his sister Cora nags, “and without wasting time and money.” But it’s too late, Rodman is bringing in strikebreakers, naively failing to anticipate the disastrous impact that this will have on his family and their place in the community where they have lived for generations.
Sophomore Girl
1951 год. Еврейский юноша Маркус Месснер едет из Ньюарка, штат Нью-Джерси в штат Огайо, где он собирается учиться в колледже. Там, на фоне продолжающийся войны в Корее, ему придется столкнуться с антисемитизмом и сексуальной подавленностью.
Crystal Hamish-Steinberg
Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.
