When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the Family Court System.

Siva, a police officer, has to escort a witness to the court. He learns that all the police service wants to kill the witness. An escape begins.

A struggling comic resorts to extreme measures to prevent his party-girl ex-wife from gaining custody of their young son.

A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.