International Actuality

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.

In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and he seeks to reopen the dance hall that led to his deportation.

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.