Jessica Lange leverer en mageløs karakterskildring i rollen som adoptivmoderen, der tager et forladt barn til sig - en præstation, der kan sammenlignes med hendes rolle i filmen Blue Sky, som indbragte hende en Oscar. Halle Berry spiller fantastisk i rollen som den biologiske mor, der får styr på sit liv og beslutter sig for at vinde sit barn tilbage - en præstation, der hævdes at være hendes gennembrud i filmens verden. Oscar-nominerede Samuel L. Jackson spiller rollen som hendes fandenivoldske advokat.

I 15 år har Bruno og Malik drevet et hjem for børn og unge med svær autisme. Med et enormt engagement og ukueligt gå-på-mod forsøger makkerparret at skabe gode rammer for en gruppe mennesker, som resten af samfundet ikke kan håndtere. Hverdagen rummer talrige udfordringer, og der bliver ikke færre, da myndighederne begynder at true med at lukke hjemmet.

Da spækhuggeren Willy bliver taget til fange ude på det store hav og lukket inde i et lille bassin i et vandland, ender den som en trist og utilregnelig attraktion. Ingen kan forstå Willy bortset fra den forhutlede og forældreløse dreng Jesse som ved hvordan det er ikke at have nogen familie. Sammen knytter de et særligt venskab, som er så stærkt, at de er villige til at satse alt for at finde en vej ud af deres trængsler.

Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit, so that Vincent can find revenge and leave the past behind. But there is no ideal culprit and no perfect crime.

Lives change when a homeless woman, in desperate search of a better life, meets a social worker with troubles of her own.

In the mid-1990s, Dieter Dubbert accidentally ends up with the Miskito Indians in Bismuna, Nicaragua. Here he begins to work with drug-addicted and delinquent young people from Germany who would otherwise disappear into homes and prisons.

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reversed.

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once caused.

Due to the increasing privatization of basic public services in Spain, companies such as BB Serveis are accused of misappropriating several million euros of public money intended to finance care for the elderly and other dependent persons.

36 year-old Nirupama Rajeev (played by Manju Warrier) is an UD clerk in Revenue Department. The role of her husband is played by Kunchaka Boban. There is nothing interesting about her life as she leads a life which is determined by her usual daily activities. The movie focusses on the society's obsession with the age and how individual's ability is overlooked by the fact how old he or she is.

A married woman, who has set aside her dreams for the sake of her husband and daughter, rediscovers her true self and becomes an achiever.

Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The special centres around a wealthy car dealer Jonathan Donald who befriends a terminally ill teenager Freddie Copeland and makes his Christmas wish come true.

Based on a fictionalized 2015 memoir from psychiatric nurse Mary Dorsan, the text embeds within a teenage psychiatric ward over the course of a year, teasing out the complex bonds, challenges, frustrations and unexpected moments of grace shared between patients and caregivers.

A double story of music and companion; this documentary portraits two different and itinerant social bands.

A dark story about obsession, cats, and birthday presents.

A hard living, disillusioned, ex social worker becomes the unlikely savior to an anarchic gang of joy-riding, drug taking, thieving, out of control, care home runaway kids.

Young people who have to survive without a home base are helped on their way to a life on their own two feet at Wonen Met Kansen. Little by little, with trial and error, but with the rock-solid confidence that the supervisors have in them.

It's December 16, 1972, 50 years ago. The first social cooperative in the world is born in Trieste. It was formed by 28 people: two sociologists, two psychologists, five nurses, a healthcare assistant, two doctors and sixteen private individuals who all have the same residential address: via San Cilino 16, Trieste. They are interned in a psychiatric hospital and therefore have no civil and political rights: they cannot vote, marry or make a will. Imagine founding a cooperative. Thus the Court of Trieste rejected the request to establish the cooperative. It would have been a long march through the institutions.

In the spring of 1962, members of the Christian Peace Service aid group flew in from Bern, Switzerland and settled in the poorest villages in all of Greece. Led by photographer and social worker Fritz Berger, the group itself had one purpose: the provision of aid and development services to local communities inhabiting the southwest region of Lefkada. What followed were revolutionary advancements that would leave their lives forever changed.