The women of a brothel house live under the care of a woman referred to as Mama, while facing the disapproval and disrespect from the public.

A young makeup artist in 1950s Hollywood finds a cheap new bungalow to move into, but begins to feel threatened by her landlord when she finds out that a previous tenant died in the very same unit.

A lonely old man comes to visit a married woman's apartment, which she and her husband are renting out for the summer while they travel to Europe—however, the woman becomes suspicious that the old man is not actually interested in renting at all.

Consumed in a disturbing relationship with an older woman, a girl from Ohio slips through the impoverished side of New York City in search of an experience that she thinks will make her a woman in what she knows is a man’s world.

A woman gets married and chooses to leave her busy job as a stenographer. She soon becomes restless in the daily short-lived tedium of housewifery and begins developing feelings for a new man.

A nosey man living in a suburb regularly interacts with several neighbors but keeps his distance from one woman, whom he witnesses abuse her children verbally and physically. When the situation escalates, however, he must decide whether or not to intervene.

A woman and her friends attempt to steal money from a Dominican stash house in New York. Their plans go horribly wrong: the woman's friends die and she barely gets away with the money and her life.

An unhappy woman lives in the slums of New York only to watch her life transform as her children become wildly successful, catapulting her into an unrecognizable world of extravagance.

Two elderly women in rural Georgia attempt to help a man with amnesia who happens upon their farm, and in the process accidentally become accomplices to a crime.

When an elderly woman finds a young boy in her backyard, she invites him inside. In the weeks that follow, the woman learns more about the boy's life with his abusive, drug-dealing uncle and decides she must take action.