A woman addicted to narcotics works as a waitress and fixes up her apartment in hopes of getting back her son from foster care after throwing him against a wall.

Fresh out of rehab, a young man returns to New York City searching for girl he used to know, finding ghosts from his past along the way.

Two fourteen-year-old Latino boys live together with their mothers on the shore of Lake Michigan. When they realize that they each have feelings for the other, they clandestinely pursue a physical relationship.

An Indian-American teenager grapples with his mother's alcoholism and the adultery of his father, who threatens to send his mother back to India.