Ellen, a happily married young teacher is raped and beaten by a man who threatens her and her husband if she goes to the police. She is admitted to the hospital and reports the rape to the police. The police in turn go after a suspect, Lewis Snow. Meanwhile, Ellen finds out that she is pregnant, however, she doesn't know if it's her attacker's baby or her husband's.

Emma desperately wants a baby but as she sets about getting her life in order to make it happen, she just won't let herself give in to the idea that the man she really loves is a recent college grad ten years younger than her, whom she used to babysit when she was a teenager and he was four.

Alice checks into a lonely hotel room at night and sets about making preparations to end her life, whilst obsessively re-drafting the perfect suicide note.

When a travelling salesman arrives late to his usual rest stop after losing his last client, the evening only continues downhill thanks to the clerk with the crooked smile.

For the first time after 11 years, Simon, a young historian visits the village of his childhood at Balaton and Aunt Lina, his foster-mother. He gets upset by what he experiences there: the old woman's troublesome and vexing everydays, her quiet sadness. He is overwhelmed by his own memories, the death of his foster-father and by everything he was not aware of before, or he simply wanted to forget.

This story revolves around a girl named Lee Soo-jung who was adopted and raised by her adoptive parents, Park Geum-ok and her father Lee Kyung-tae and her brother Lee Soo-ho. Lee Soo-jung is often in a bad relationship with Ma Ye-ri.

After she narrowly escaped rape by attackers in Toronto, artist Alison Shaw and her devoted hunky husband Darrin, a construction worker, move to a rural small town in Ontario and nest a dream home. The locals are welcoming, especially David Snow, who makes Darrin his partner in an Antiques business and gallery for her art, but then she believes David is the serial killer behind a number of murders on women looking rather like her- given his excellent reputation, nobody believes her. Even after they move to Vancouver, her obsession remains focused and Darrin had had enough...

A bright young New York physician takes her husband, a jokey/cynical tabloid reporter, home to Illinois to meet her parents.

The ups and downs of female comic Kiki Melendez.

Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.