The distance between the American Dream and a family's nightmare can be measured in the worth of a final possession.

Swimming in a pool of adult choices, a boy sees the world in a new way and turns a valve in response.

An incipient life generates certain inevitabilities. Other lives, as they thread themselves together, are subject to the vagaries of chance.

A connection from the past surfaces with dangerous ramifications. Are the promises we make in the scramble of an emergency binding forever?

An ordered home, catalogued and coherent, frays on the road. Or does it?