Ward One

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

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.

Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.