A teenage girl disappears and later turns up drowned, with a log across her back. Three years later, a former friend comes forward with some answers.

An ex-convict is tracked down by his estranged teenage son, and the pair try to build a relationship and life together in Seattle.

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger.

A brother and his young sister come to a small town to find out a local gang terrorizes the population.