After her son's tragic death followed by a messy divorce, Charleston woman Delilah and her rebellious teenage daughter, Vivi, are forced to move from Seattle back to the family home in the South. Once back, they will be forced to confront the tragedy and abuse from their past, face complications surrounding the men that come in and out of Delilah's life, and find a way to deal with the danger that still threatens them both.

A desperate woman tries to find help for her son, who has great mathematic ability but a profound problem developing social skills.

Fighting against the prejudices of late 1960s Germany, a mother will stop at nothing to find her son a proper psychiatric diagnosis. To society, he is a problem child; to his mother, he is gifted. Doctor Zhivago meets The A Word... an exquisite, arresting tale of love and hope.