Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster homes before becoming her own person. Explores the strange relationship of Ingrid and Astrid, and includes Astrid's relationship with her foster mothers. At first merely an appendage...

Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts...

In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder enjoys a blissful childhood at her mother's side, learns the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair," and encounters first love with a boy named Tuck. When Tuck leaves her, Calla transforms her sorrow into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans--where she realizes the full power of her "healing hands" and Tuck presents her with an offer...

Toots Loudenberry moves to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Abby, who is attempting to makeover a struggling tabloid. Toots brings along her best friends, Ida, Sophie, and Mavis, who expect fun times but instead find a haunted Malibu beach house, career problems for Abby, and Ida's budding romance with the suspicious Dr. Sameer.

A young woman with a history of drug abuse returns home after a 3-year prison sentence, to reconnect with her 5-year-old daughter while trying to adjust to the outside world once again.

A woman divorced by her husband following the birth of their disabled daughter receives help and support from her mother, her baby-sitter, and her former brother-in-law.

Sisters Miranda and Annie retreat to Westport, Connecticut, with their mother after their father files for divorce after forty-eight years of marriage, and the three find life in the small, dilapidated beach cottage brings about confusion over reason and romance.

The Sparrow family's women have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. And granddaughter Stella has a mental window to the future -- but her clairvoyance may bring her clan ruin.

Dr. Clara Casey takes on the demanding, thankless job of establishing a new heart clinic in Ireland, despite the trouble it causes in her private life, but once the clinic is off the ground, Clara must decide if she wants to return to her former life or stay on at the clinic.