A young girl attending a predominantly white New York City grade school in the 1950s watches the journey of one of her classmates — a girl of color with a disability — when an influential teacher helps her become more confident and comfortable.

Two young girls trusted their mother to bring them to place where they could have a better life, but now they are stranded on a mid-Atlantic island. Can they keep each other alive?

After having an affair with a married man, a woman divorces her old husband and remarries, but she struggles to keep up with the compounded responsibilities of mother- and step-motherhood.

After finding out that her toddler has cancer, a fiction writer and her husband living in the American Midwest do everything they can to save their baby, including giving up her artistic integrity in order to pay for the medical bills.

A marine scientist having marital issues finds everything coming to a head when she discovers she's pregnant. Faced with this, she starts to deal with the past as well — and confront her own mother.

A woman with an emotionally manipulative husband realizes that she has long judged herself based on men's opinions of her and decides to define her own self.

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.