An elderly woman finds herself surrounded by tragedy.

An American woman tries to follow her sister to the land of the dead to tell her of their parents' demise.

A boy learns from his father’s best friend the history of his family and the value of man’s relationship with nature, but is interrupted by his father’s death and his mother’s sudden arrival.

A struggling private-investigator is drawn into a lurid murder-suicide case even after he is officially off the case.