Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the "wrong side of the tracks" falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.

After her mother's suicide, a young woman moves to New York to start afresh. After a rocky start with her troubled new roommate, the two slowly forge a friendship, finding solace in each other's difficult pasts, until one of them ...

(Also known as Frozen in time) The small town of Rockwell is mysteriously frozen in time after a bus accident, that is, until a boy with a sordid past comes to town and then the hands of time move forward.