It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night...
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen...
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick...