Ivan Kondarev

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.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.