An English teacher’s life turns upside-down once a new student moves in across the street.

An abused wife leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her children to another town. There their lives become entwined with another family in trouble.

Jim Varney’s recurring dim-bulb character Ernest P. Worrell returns in this film as a school bus driver seeking to obtain a high school diploma.

A woman fights to prove her son is alive when she discovers her ex-husband has gone to elaborate lengths to fake his death to ruin her life.