A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.

A young serial killer preys on families during lightning storms.

A young girl moves in with her estranged father, her new stepmother, and two teenaged stepsisters. Ellen soon discovers that her father and stepmother are hopeless alcoholics with a severe streak of violence.