Fate brings two young strangers into each other's world, but faith and family troubles cause one of them to run away and begin a new life of their own.
A 35-year-old writer receives an invitation from her former professor to speak at her alma mater, and she takes the trip since her book tour got canceled.
An eccentric and naive playgirl living in New York prides herself on being fiercely independent, until she falls for a young writer who lives in her building.
A matriarch gets her dysfunctional family together for one last weekend at their lake house, but a weekend she had carefully planned out quickly falls apart.
A Confederate soldier seeks to be reunited with the love he was forced to leave behind by the onset of the Civil War as she struggles to survive on her own.
A black baby born following prenatal cocaine exposure is adopted by a white social worker, but four years later his now-recovered mother wants him back.
A young man and woman fall madly in love with one another but are forbidden to marry, causing the heartbroken woman to express her sorrow through her cooking.