The son of an American Indian and a white settler finds his way in the old American West. After he rescues the owner of a ranch, he is offered a job and wins the favor of the ranch owner’s daughter, earning him the scorn of the racist ranch boss.

A woman’s inability to process the death of her son is tearing apart her marriage. When she contemplates suicide, she is visited by a specter from the past who relates the medical drama that connects them.

In Greece, an international jewel thief escapes capture when he befriends an American tourist.

A man has made an lost a fortune and finds himself in debt. Despite the admonishment of is friend and lawyer, he is tempted to find way to collect on his two million dollar life insurance.

A scholar becomes absorbed in his work on Beowulf. His wife and his psychiatrist friend become alarmed by his behavior and the unexplained evidence of violence around them.

A older woman hopes to be admitted into an home for elderly women, headquartered in her childhood townhouse, but her friend, a retired judge, suspects something is amiss.

An actress records her own attempted suicide on audio tape.

A ten-year-old girl has lost her parents and now lives with her cold and strict aunts. Her grandfather seeks to nourish and protect her.

A forty-year-old female doctor of sociology is tired of her trite social life with her single friends, seeking out male companionship. What she finds changes her life.

A promising young bank officer in the old west is charged with the safe transport of a large sum of money across dangerous territory.