An Italian-American family begins to crumble apart after experiencing several tragic accidents, but the father tries desperately to stay strong and remains optimistic that everyone will one day be together again.

When a young, Irish girl travels to stay with extended family due to her immediate family's financial struggles, she begins to feel more at home in her new, temporary life.

A vicar-general living in New Orleans around the late eighteenth-century has several strange encounters when he decides to go on a walk late one night in a dangerous part of town.