Jacques Mapes

A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.

Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.

An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.

A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.

An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.