Gelsomina is sold by her impoverished mother to the Gypsy Zampanò. Zampanò makes a living as a strongman and uses cruelty, both physical and emotional, to train Gelsomina as his assistant. During their travels, they become acquainted with another street ...
JC tells Dwayne her mother is forcing her to go to a swim party date with another guy. Short scene.
Sera tells a story of a man she worked with when she had started being a prostitute. She remembers how good of a memory it was. After that, Ben says he likes being with her.
Sera find Ben asleep in a drunken stupor on the doorstep. They go inside and she gives him gifts. He tells her he loves her.
Ben and Sera talk about his drinking into oblivion and how she's the only one keeping him alive.
After a night where Ben gets too drunk and goes ballistic, Sera explains to him what happened. Ben apologizes, and Sera says it's ok, and that she needs him. Then asks to not talk about it anymore.
Sera tells Ben he should check out of the hotel and stay with her. He refuses. They both realize they both don't have anybody, and this is better than nothing. Ben relents on one condition, she will never ask him to stop drinking.
Sera asks Ben why he's killing himself. He responds with saying he doesn't remember, he just knows he wants to. She ends up asking him to stay at her place.
Garance, a beautiful and charismatic courtesan, is pursued by Baptiste Debureau, a mime.
Murtaugh and Riggs come up to a patrolman who is watching a guy on the edge of a building. Riggs volunteers to council the guy down. Upon trying to help the guy, Riggs handcuffs him, then forces him to jump twenty flights.
Lianna has moved out of the house she shared with her ex-husband Dick. She has her own apartment, and she’s gotten a job checking groceries. Lianna hasn’t been able to see her children often, and she knows that her lover, Ruth, is seeing her former love ...
Lianna is the young wife of a film studies professor at a small college. She used to be his student; they had an affair and now have been married several years, much of it unhappily. Dick still sleeps with his students, and takes no pains to hide it fro ...
Fletcher is trying to come to terms with his new inability to lie and gets his secretary, Tess, involved. "The pen is blue!"
George talks to his son Sam about his drug usage and complexes. Then George tells Sam how much he hated/loved his father.
Audrey is upset that Oren (the dentist boyfriend) got murdered. Seymour tries to cheer her up. They break into song.
Sam was once married to Bunny Kincaid and he worked for her father, but the marriage failed. Bunny is, indeed, unbalanced. She is depressed, has obviously had some episodes with fire, and covers her deep anxiety with a football obsession. Sam shows up ...
Sam Deeds is a sheriff of a small Texas border town. His father, Buddy Deeds, was a deputy in the late fifties under a corrupt sheriff, Charlie Wade, but Buddy stood up to Charlie’s bullying and Charlie disappeared soon after, never to be heard from agai ...
Sonya is angry at James for helping with her family. He turns the conversation back to her, and she tries to seduce him.
Khaila (the birth mother and former junkie) and Margaret (the adoptive mother) argue over Isaiah and who would be better suited as his mother, given their pasts and current situations.
Bob and Charlotte meet for the first time at a bar, they hit it off right away.
