"What do you want?" he whimpered. "Shut it," I pushed him stumbling into his living room. "Don't hurt him," his good wife screamed and she when she came to his aid. We had chosen this house with care for it far away off the main track to be isolated. The young couple who lived there weren't rich but they wasn't poor either. We had just walked up to the front door and knocked.
Betsy is turning 40 very soon and she takes time to recall her past. Some of the things she did, especially the sexual affairs, still sent shivers up her spine.
Claire commits an inexcusable faux pas in the Sigma Gamma Gamma house and a vindictive sorority president decides to make her go through hell to get back in the group's good graces.
14-year-old mixed-race Danny Foster, a free spirit in a Southern town crossed by two rail lines, is burdened by being on the wrong side of too many tracks. Not only is he, along with his single-parent mother, a prostitute to the town's men, but he also risks being swept up in election scandal from his relationship with both candidates. He's about to leave for a free ride to a military academy 25 miles away, but can he get out of town before he's swept off the rails by a sex scandal?
A family has everything going wrong as far as a family is concerned. The father is NOT the father of the daughter. Mom got pregnant and convinced another man that it was his child and they got married. The man was to inherit a large family business, but he lost everyting and stayed drunk and in-out of jail most of the time. Mom got a job as a waitress and sold herself to help support the kids, pay bills, etc...