Plot
Ellie is an idealistic, young actress living in NYC. She's a very giving person, so when her husband, Mitchell, gets a job offer back home in Buffalo, Ellie reluctantly agrees to the move. Mitchell loves Buffalo, so Ellie looks for happiness there, too. She joins a little theatre company and, unwittingly, winds up emotionally involved with the director, James. Ellie just keeps on giving and others keep on taking! James casts Ellie in a theme park show and tells her it will be lots of fun, and she'll get to do it eight times a day! He neglects to mention the grueling physical challenges involved. The show finally puts Ellie over the edge and, at last, she learns to take care of herself. She returns to Mitchell, but on her own terms this time.

Plot
The story centers around a beautiful young African girl named Phoebe who works as a maid for a rich white family in a small South African town. Her boss Henri abuses her on a regular basis while his wife looks the other way. She gets pregnant without know whom the father is. During her labor, she experience complications and passes away while giving birth to her baby girl. A powerful voodoo priest in the village, the chief and many other perform a ritual of drawing dry-point to determine who will murder Henri. Phoebe's aunt, raise the girl and she too was abuses and raped by her teacher, who is HIV positive. Life's not fair, but positive is created from it all.