After a summer prank goes awry, a teenage boy falls in love while grappling with his guilty conscience.

When her best friend takes his own life, Liusaidh has to deal with stresses of such a situation.

In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.