During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come ...

Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

An architect relives her disastrous wedding day over and over until she discovers what she really wants in life.

After her family goes bankrupt, a city woman (Jessy Schram) travels to the country to fix up a struggling pumpkin farm that her father (Willie Aames) bought as an investment.