Mike and Claire from Milwaukee want more out of life: Claire doesn't want to be just a hairdresser, and Mike wants to entertain people. They start performing as a duo, singing Neil Diamond songs. Gradually, the couple gains popularity and grows closer, despite the serious challenges they face on their musical journey.
John Sedley was born with a disfigured face, and this, combined with a difficult childhood, sealed his fate—he became a criminal. During an armed robbery, John and his friend Mikey were framed by their partners; as a result, John ended up in prison, but he didn’t rat anyone out, hoping to be released and take revenge. In prison, with the help of a compassionate surgeon, he receives a new face, and eventually he is released under an amnesty. John begins a dangerous game to settle the score with his betrayers.
Ricky Baker is a chubby city delinquent. Paula, a social worker, takes the teenager to the countryside, where the only family willing to take him in lives—Bella and her reclusive husband, Hack. When Bella dies and child protective services are about to take Ricky away, he runs off into the woods, and Heck sets out after him. Paula is convinced that the strange Heck has lost his mind over his wife’s death and has kidnapped the teenager, so she launches a nationwide manhunt for the boy and his “abductor.”
John and Tina, two young people, meet in the park, get to know each other, and spend a day together. The girl returns home in the early morning, her expensive dress torn, and tells her mother what happened. The young man, who has a scraped forehead, tells his friends his version of what happened. The doorman, who had been watching them, offered his take on the incident. Three different people are telling the same story. Which one of them is telling the truth?
The only thing pilot David Keller was able to do after the explosion on board was to steer the falling plane away from the city’s densely populated areas. But the plane’s 300 passengers were killed. Keller himself emerged alive and unharmed before the astonished rescue workers, though he was suffering from memory lapses. He is trying to piece together what happened, and a young medium named Hobbs comes to his aid; she can hear the voices of the victims calling Keller to the crash site…
The film tells the story of the famous 1973 Brookside strike, which became known as “Bloody Harlan,” when 180 miners and their wives protested against the management of a coal mine and a coal-processing plant located in Harlan County and owned by Duke Power.
