Down-on-her-luck waitress Tessa Rigsby scrapes through her days, looking for an opportunity to break into her real love: interior design. But when domestic violence hits too close to home, she gets caught up in a case that will change her life forever.

On the night she plans on taking her own life, a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective, who suspects she was abducted by a serial killer. Based on horrifying true events.

Juggling a job as a waitress and raising two boys on her own--little Peter, and the 11-year-old child prodigy, Henry--the single mother, Susan Carpenter, has a somewhat chaotic life, depending on Henry to manage the household's finances. However, things will take an unexpected turn, when Henry's innocent crush on the beautiful girl next door and hopeful ballet dancer, Christina, unveils a cruel and shocking revelation, dragging Susan in the middle of a dark conspiracy. Will the Carpenters take the law into their own hands; moreover, what's written inside Henry's little red book?

A mother takes her children and flees an abusive ex-husband.

This story focuses primarily on Julie Thompson (Christine Kelly),a young conservative Christian woman, who is truly tested by God, and gives birth to a child conceived in rape. This decision leads her to a journey that forces her to explore and redefine her relationships with God, her family, friends and even her rapist Mike Connor (Arturo Fernandez), as she struggles to forgive the man who violated her by boldly visiting him in prison and forging an unlikely bond.

A college student struggling with a painful childhood begins to have a reoccurring nightmare that compels her to confront her past and restore her faith.

Twelve-year-old Lily Strickland has lost her father, a sailor, to the sea. She and her mother go to live with her grandparents. Lily and her family have little closure on the death of her father since he was never found, thus Lily sets out alone on a trek to the ocean to find the closure that she needs to heal her loss. Set in 1965 Alabama, during the Civil Rights marches.

The intersecting stories of three very different couples in Vancouver are told, those stories largely focusing on the issue of the socioeconomic and housing divide in the city. The first couple, wealthy Anne and Stephen Burrows, live on the expensive west side. Stephen, a real estate agent, deals exclusively on the west side, selling his clients that the prestige and safety is worth the hefty price tag compared to other neighborhoods. Anne, who is organizing a fundraiser for a new housing project for youth at risk in working for a drug counseling center, is all about appearance. Their thirteen year old daughter Megan Burrows, hates her mother in Anne trying to control everything to her perfect, upscale, west side sensibility, shy Megan who has not been able to find her voice as a result. The second couple is Sarah and Doug Cameron, who have just bought their first house in the working class neighborhood of Mount Pleasant on the east side. Sarah is Anne's colleague working in human resources at the drug counseling center, while Doug is a work and stay-at-home dad looking after their adolescent daughter, Courtney Cameron. While Sarah and Doug love each other, their marriage may not be able to survive something that happens to Courtney largely a result of the neighborhood in which they live. An outcome of this issue is that Doug wants to rid Mount Pleasant of all the social ills associated with their neighborhood, especially as it concerns his family and almost at the expense of all else, while Sarah, who deals in social issues for work, hates that what has happened to Courtney may affect her empathy professionally. And the third couple is sixteen year old Nadia and her boyfriend Nick. Nick is a hard core drug addict who steals to support his habit, while Nadia, who also does drugs, hooks on the side, she often standing on a street corner of Mount Pleasant. While most of their money goes to drugs, Nadia has a goal of saving enough money for the two of them to go to Thailand. Following the recent passing of her father, the only family Nadia has left is her older sister Marya, who tries to tread the fine line of family, Nadia versus her yet unborn child. One of Nadia's regular Johns is Stephen, who can no longer do it with Anne in feeling much what Megan is feeling, Anne who is oblivious to both her husband and daughter's true feelings toward her beyond Stephen not being able to "get it up", which she believes is solely something that men of Stephen's age sometimes go through.

On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still in diapers, barely able to walk and unable to speak. Kept in severe isolation by her parents with virtually no human contact for more than 10 years, she was confined to her bedroom, tied to her potty-chair and left to fend for herself. As Cronkite noted, it was one of the most horrendous cases of child abuse ever to surface. Much like an animal, the girl spat, sniffed and clawed. She had none of the traits or characteristics of conventional human behavior, nor could she comprehend such modern societal conveniences as silverware or bathroom etiquette. Her emotional development was practically non-existent, and she could not speak. With this heartbreaking story, the world was being introduced to a fragile, beautiful teenager who seemed and behaved like an infant, or Wild Child.

Hard as nails 22 year old thief and prostitute VICTORIA WALKER is given a tough choice by a judge: get a legal job or go to jail. Victoria's bad attitude and demeanor slams the door on all her job opportunities except for a helpmate position with a wealthy and elderly Palm Beach woman. Althea Jaffery, age 77, takes an unusual liking to Victoria and hires her on the spot beginning a relationship between two women that are worlds apart. The unconditional love of Althea peels away the hardness in Victoria, allowing her to reveal her dark and secret past, while the persistent and confrontational Victoria discovers that Althea has been hiding from a dark and secret past as well. These two women, once with little in common, find themselves at the same point in their lives; discovering that a key to life is the power of forgiveness.

Anne Heche plays an abusive mother to Gracie, played by Kristen Bell. Gracie has always taken care of her three younger half-brothers and one half-sister. When her mother's drug and alcohol abuse goes too far, Gracie decides to assume the official role of mother to her half-siblings.

Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife Kendra are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented - "we should have known, we should have seen" - but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.

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