Plainsong

A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.

A woman, grieving her daughter's death in the Christchurch quakes, becomes a substitute teacher at an elite school. Unexpectedly, she discovers students lacking guidance and care, prompting her to pro

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain cu

A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.

The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.

The difficulties two sisters face raising their teenage daughters.

American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.

A teenage girl tries to raise her three half-brothers and one half-sister on her own after their drug-addicted mother is sent to jail.

A troubled young woman is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest.

When a crisis suddenly engulfs an elementary school campus, a determined art teacher tries everything she can to save her class.