Pendant les années 1930, Edouard Binet, un aventurier qui a été pendant des années en Égypte, fait la connaissance d'un homme d'affaires très riche et d'une jeune danseuse. Il voyage avec eux sur le train Paris-Bruxelles (l'Étoile du Nord). Elle devient sa maîtresse et il s'installe chez sa mère qui tient une pension de famille à Charleroi.
Jallel, un jeune Tunisien, immigre clandestinement en France. Ce n'est pas le pays de cocagne dont il avait rêvé, mais il s'adapte bien à Paris où il fait toutes sortes de rencontres : Nassera, une jeune mère célibataire qui refuse à la dernière minute de l'épouser, des clochards avec qui il vit dans un foyer et Lucie, qui souffre de troubles psychiatriques.
Whitney, at the time a Wall Street executive, returns to his rural hometown of Carlotta, California, and interviews his family members about his maternal stepgrandfather, Melvin E. Just. Just sexually abused 10 of Whitney's relatives, including his mother, uncle, aunts and step-aunts, some as young as 2 years old. The consequeneces have resulted in dysfunction spanning three generations of the family. Whitney reveals he was also molested by his uncle, who now lives incestuously with his half-sister. Whitney's aunts discuss their struggles with alcohol and drug addiction, and bouts of homelessness and prostitution.
In 2004, Alice Whinnett was diagnosed with dementia. Over the following decade her condition naturally worsened, and everything in her world changed, all apart from how her "favourite grandson" behaved with her. In this short documentary, grandson Thomas McNaught gives a brief look at the relationship between his 84-year-old grandmother and himself, showing a lighter side to the disease that breaks so many families apart.
While Lowell is generally known for its central role in the Industrial Revolution as the first planned textile town in the United States, the city had fallen on hard times since the mills left the city in the early 1920s. Wang Laboratories, a major employer in Lowell in the more prosperous 1980s, declared bankruptcy and virtually went out of business in the early 1990s. The Lowell of 1995 had a large percentage of the population unemployed or underemployed, in poverty, and unaffected by positive things in the city like the Lowell National Historical Park and The Lowell Folk Festival (established in 1990). Much of the film takes place in a lower-class section of the city's (Lower) Highlands neighborhood.
Franny Basilio (Amanda Plummer) is determined to help her musically gifted autistic sister Rosetta (Megan Follows) have a life of her own. Their mother Regina (Teresa Stratas), who gave up a promising career as an opera singer to raise her children, refuses to acknowledge Rosetta’s talent and believes she will never be capable of looking after herself. Franny vehemently disagrees with her mother, which has caused friction between them since she was a child. Eventually, Regina’s bitterness, ignorance and desire for acknowledgement of her own talent cause a rift between her and her daughters. Franny ultimately moves out of the house causing Rosetta to hurt herself in a desperate cry for help. Rosetta is hospitalized and assessed by doctors who recommend to Regina that her daughter be lobotomized for her own good. Franny must summon all of her courage in order to prevent her mother from allowing Rosetta to have the operation and be committed to an institution for the rest of her life.
Un homme se réveille, amnésique, après un accident de voiture. L’inconnue qui le soigne, Anna, se présente comme étant sa femme. Alors que l’homme retrouve progressivement sa mémoire, le doute s’immisce sur l’identité de la jeune femme. Le cauchemar ne fait que commencer…