The Texas Beam family (mother, father and two daughters) has just been indebted to expand the estate in which her father carries out her veterinary profession when her second-born Annabel (10 years old) is hit by a rare illness. This is an affect to the digestive system that prevents the transformation of foods. The prognosis is infamous and in any case the pains the child suffers are difficult to withstand. The family is very religious but her mother, Christy, does not endorse the test and departs from the faith...
Kenny Wells is the heir to an important mining entrepreneur. In a few years, fortune (thanks to alcohol) goes back and is on the verge of bankruptcy. However, he still succeeds in collecting a sum of money to support Geological Survey Michael Acosta, who seems to have discovered in the uncharted Indonesian jungle one of the largest gold fields in the world...
Lindsey comes out of an unsuccessful wedding with Dan and lives alone with her eleven-year-old son, Cameron, who perceives her parents’ disagreement and realizes that Mom does not even answer her father’s phone calls. The fact is, Dan – who has the pity of alcohol – knocked Cameron out of his arm and for this reason Lindsey wants to stay out of the way. One night at home, Cameron is inexplicably attacked by a color vagrant he had seen in the evening in the street...
Following a mysterious and turbulent past, Lucinda called ‘Light’ is segregated to Sword and Cross, a university and a correctional institute together. Winning general distrust, Luce finds a friend in Penn, but soon attracts the attention of two guys: the teddy boy cursed Cam and the blond Daniel, who seems to want to divert Luce while being attracted...
Michelle Robinson is expecting Barack Obama, a colleague of her law firm, to spend the afternoon together, but she wants to reiterate, with her parents and even more with the concerned person, that this is not an appointment. The two walk for the beloved Chicago, visit an exhibition of paintings, attend a meeting of a popular citizens’ committee, go to the movies...
In an airplane, a man is quite nervous. He asks the neighbor of the seat if he knows the legend of the video that leads to death. She asks him why he fears to have seen him and his remaining week of life lasts for five minutes. In fact, from a screen on board the plane, the ghostly Samara materializes. Two years later, Skye, a college student, adopts an old video recorder on a market: Gabriel, his professor, explains that he comes from a family whose son died in an air crash a couple of years earlier. The two spend the night together. Gabriel works on the VCR until a video cassette is put on it, which is written: “Look at me.” And what does he do, Gabriel? She looks at her. Meanwhile, young Julia is engaged with Holt, who has to leave her to go to college. Time passes, but the two remain in touch via Skype. But then something happens: Holt no longer calls. Julia receives a video call from Holt’s computer, but she finds a stranger on the video, Skye, who is frustrated and frightened about the impending arrival of her. Worried, Julia rushes to college to investigate, but the matter instead of clarifying becomes more complicated: he does not find Holt, but talks to his professor, Gabriel, rather evasive and reticent. Julia insists on her research and finds a book written by Gabriel on the mystery of Samara: she realizes there is something unclear in the behavior of Professor and Skye, the girl of the video call...
Ned Fleming, his wife and younger son, traveled during Christmas holidays from Michigan to California to visit Stephanie’s first birthday and get acquainted with her boyfriend, after having more than glimpse the back in a collective video call. Laird, the young man in question, is an ultra-billionaire from Silicon Valley, master of a dreamy hypertechnology, but also eccentric erotoman, unable to control language, insensitive to any socially established limit...
Troy Maxson in the Pittsburgh Nightmare in the 1950s fights daily against social injustices and inner demons. Unmoved and cuddly spirit, he has a wife, a lover, an inseparable friend, and two children he does not approve vocations. Lyons plays jazz and Troy sings the blues, Cory practice football and Troy plays baseball. Closed in the fence he is building for Rose and in what he has raised in his heart, Troy is a relentless wave that frustrates his affections. Noting the younger son, whose wings are to be protected from racial discrimination, and persuaded by his friend to make a decision on his (double) life, confess to his wife betrayal and open a gap of grief to each other...
From the birth Nat brings to the body the signs that, according to African culture, serve to designate a garment. It is 1909, and Nat lives in a cotton plantation in Virginia with her mother and grandmother after her father has been forced to flee for having acted a rebellion against a slave merchant. The owner of the plantation intuits in the child a strong intelligence and decides to teach them to read using the Bible as a text...
A top-grade girl wants to expand her horizons and decides to participate in a provocative online game where you have to do what the game orders you to do...
