It’s company outing day, and Laura, one of the top travel agents of her generation, decides to end it all. Afterwards, her colleagues try to piece things together on a memorial blog, but how do you mourn someone you didn’t know that well?
On a balmy New Mexico night in a too-small motel room, a “ragtag little group” gathers in anticipation of the funeral that has brought them together. But the dearly departed is the least of their concerns as they all grapple with the curves life has thrown them.
A first term congresswoman worries for the state of our republic when she experiences Washington’s political fundraising apparatus up close. When she doesn’t play along with lobbyists, her numbers suffer, and her party tries to push her aside. Tries.
As Tomomi’s steamer pulls into San Francisco from Japan, her arrival coincides with the first wave of west coast Japanese internment. So when an old man on board offers to arrange her marriage to his son who lives in New York, Tomomi knows she must accept. Funny, intimate and deeply magical, The Art of Gaman is an account of one woman’s journey towards independence and self-expression through her life and American history.
Told through live radio & phone calls, Today… is a comedy about life with a thousand friends on Facebook & no one to have dinner with on Friday night.
Examines the nature of equality and justice through the eyes of women whose migration to the U.S. brings its own test of the human spirit.
Lewis invites his estranged sister Dana on a trip to Rome to reconnect. Old wounds fester and intimate secrets are revealed.
Hank struggles to keep his legendary Chicago rock club going amid changing times, changing tastes & the destructive power of the Next Big Thing.
A Midwestern ghost story about a Hmong American family living in outstate Minnesota and the tenuous bonds that tie us together.
After losing her athletic scholarship, Sally Wright returns home to face her beer guzzling father, wayward brother, and the dearth of hope in her dead end northeastern town. Where she is haunted by John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner and Timothy McVeigh.