Pati Lauren

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.

Five individuals meet by coincidence in a random diner at the same time, without knowing they all affected each other's lives the night before. The multiple story-line follows a gay father trying to re-connect with his estranged son, a woman in desperate need of a drug fix and her dealer who accidentally shoots the wife of a young man, and a woman trying to escape an abusive marriage.

Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.

An extremely sensitive young man in Brooklyn goes way too far in his quest to adhere to society's expectations of traditional masculinity.