Moved to another town, Jamin is now in eleventh grade, living with his alcoholic mother, and the beneficiary of court-ordered protection from his abusive father. A few more negative experiences and Jamin snaps.

A young woman returning from a renaissance fair survives a car accident, but much to her family's horror, the accident damages her brain and she develops blatantly promiscuous and childlike behavior.

With very little money in her pockets, a young, street smart, starving actress, La 'Akea Roberts, leaves her home in Chicago and sets out to find her fame on Broadway, as a rich girl, Peyton Lee Parker, leaves her gilded-cage life style in North Carolina, in order to get out from beneath her father's rules and money, and heads for New York City. Coincidently, both young women find themselves renting the same apartment in the village. Though rightfully, the apartment is leased to Peyton, she allows La 'Akea to stay until she finds her own place. Unbeknougnst to both, the apartment belongs to a deceased mobster, Johnny Diamond, who happens to still reside there, in spirit. As Peyton, La 'Akea's and Johnny relationship takes shape, they also find themselves intertwined with the other eclectic residence of the apartment complex.

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.