A married couple tries to make ends meet for their hungry and sick children in the midst of the Depression but soon realize that sheer willpower cannot save them from the ruthless winter.

A mother struggles to provide her daughter with comfort in an unstable home as her husband constantly searches for new employment.

Three young siblings feel the effects of the Great Depression through their father's salary cut and change in mood. They hold a sales event to help their father which turns out to be a success.

Two men down on their luck form a surprising friendship and enact a get-rich-quick scheme.

A man recalls the story of a young family in a small town during the Great Depression who were forced to make ends meet in clandestine ways.

A young boy living with his aunt and uncle, who are immigrants from Russia, watches as his family slips into poverty during the Great Depression.

An unemployed man struggles to help an equally penniless, yet shockingly beautiful, young woman in her search for food and shelter.

A Black mother enlists rootworkers to dole out revenge on a White woman whose merciless actions during the Great Depression caused her children to starve.

In an unlikely encounter, a homeless teenage boy recounts harsh events of his life to a writer. He nonchalantly tells of an employer whose assignments caused him to have permanent physical and mental damage.

A man during the Great Depression gets a job. However, he is wracked with guilt as he watches other people less fortunate than him.