Ron Dortch

A French girl is kidnapped and sold as slave to the sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Sidda Lee Walker est une jeune et brillante dramaturge qui a fait carrière à New York, loin de sa Louisiane natale et de Vivi, sa mère excentrique, dont elle ne supportait plus les facéties. Piégée par une journaliste de "Time Magazine", Sidda se laisse aller à critiquer Vivi, provoquant ainsi la fureur de celle-ci. La dispute tourne au drame, menaçant de faire éclater les relations, passablement tendues, des deux femmes ainsi que les projets matrimoniaux de Sidda. Les trois amies intimes de Vivi, Caro, Necie et Teensy, prennent alors les choses en main. Durant leur jeunesse, ces exubérantes et intrépides femmes formèrent avec Vivi le clan des "petites Ya-Ya", un quatuor dont la complicité s'est encore renforcée au fil de cinq décennies. Pour l'aider à renouer le dialogue entre Vivi et sa fille, les trois Ya-Ya kidnappent Sidda et entreprennent de lui révéler le vrai visage de sa mère...

A lawyer trying to cope with his son's accidental death takes on a case where a farmer is charged with booby trapping a watermelon patch with a shotgun which went off and injured a young boy. But in choosing to defend the farmer, he puts himself at odds with the boy's father, an old friend who is politically influential. In dealing with this case, he is forced to confront his own son's death and his wife's slippage into being a virtual recluse.

A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't complete the embalming process, causing her to be buried alive. Awakening from the grave, she claws her way out and seeks revenge against the two who caused her supposed demise

In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.