An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne’s most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads…

In North Carolina’s Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves.

A Union soldier flees from battle and is rescued unexpectedly from free Black man Kitch and his friends. Risking everything, Kitch takes William deep into the woods to the safety…