An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

A clinically-depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

A young man, sentenced to six months in prison, goes home for his last day of freedom to throw a birthday party for his mother and try to bring his two brothers together - and be a family.

An undercover FBI agent faces a moral dilemma when he's asked to torture a member of one of the world's most powerful crime syndicates.