Two women and a man start out their adult life with all good intentions to change the world and keep their love alive and vital, but as time shows them (and us) it's not that easy.
Barry Gifford is one of America's greatest living storytellers. In a series of autobiographical stories spanning more than 40 years he has chronicled the adventures of Roy, a boy coming of age largely on the gritty streets of 1950s Chicago. In Roy's World, Gifford's recollections of his childhood are interwoven with excerpts from the "Roy" stories, vintage footage and photograp...
Dante and his girlifrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a corrupt cop who's on the take. Their downfall comes when they suspect one of the boys, Pep, of ripping them off, and his accidental death causes disloyalty among the teens, who suspect Dante ...
一帮来自民主法制健全国家——美国的女人到另外一个相对落后的国家去领养孩子。(美国的发展现状决定了领养的程序比较繁琐,大概需要长达几年甚至十几年的排队什么的,不遵照程序大概会构成刑事违法,搞得这帮美国女人都要跑到国外去找孩子,并且个个战战兢兢的……
落后国家的人们很friendly也很canny(一切看在钱的份上),她们把这帮美国女人招待的很好,让她们无休止的等待,很明显在她们这个国家抱走一个小孩不用什么手续也不是很麻烦,但是她们装作好像事情很大条的样子留着这帮女人从中挣钱取酒店费和餐费。
这些身处异地,被各种问题(主要是与领养相关的意识形态的问题,诸如宗教、伦理、法律)困扰的女人自然而然的走到了一起,她们同病相怜,又各自有各自的立场,甚至有些人对别人怀有狭隘的敌意,大概是老认为别人抱养了孩子等于自己失去了一个机会的那个味道(在我看来这些女人都很不一样...