After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.
Teacher George Dean packs up his children to accept a job instructing Native American children on a Seminole reservation in Florida.
A group of teenage girls forms a club, The Sweater Girls, to preserve their virginity.
After learning of his sister's suicide, Nick, a small-time boxer, decides to pay a visit to his sister's junkie lover in Los Angeles, collect some money and pursue an early retirement in Mexico. Along the way, he meets a 9-year-old girl who's been abandoned by her father and together they hitchhike south.