Showing results for "Hunger" in Coming of Age

In Kristiania, dem heutigen Oslo, kämpft ein junger Schriftsteller Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts um Anerkennung für seine Werke. Doch trotz großer Begabung reicht das Geld, das er verdient, kaum zum Leben. Obdachlos und halb verhungert schleppt er sich durch die Straßen der norwegischen Hauptstadt, mal voller Hoffnung, mal verzweifelt und dem Wahnsinn nahe.

Aria Abbott has never had a home. Drifting through the foster system for most of her life, she finally finds herself in a situation so unbearable that she has no choice but to run away. Sleeping on the streets pushes Aria beyond any suffering she has felt before; the only thing worse than seeing no escape is the knowledge that no one in the world cares enough to try and find her. Enter Taylor, a homeless young man with a charismatic smile and a dream of fame, fortune, and the sunshine of LA. Swept up in his energy, Aria and Taylor board a greyhound bus and never look back.

Mackenzie Fraser witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life...on the inside! And she’s losing. From the ashes rises the phoenix. As a family descends into an abyss of pain, so Mackenzie fights to discover her own way out of the overwhelming circumstances of her sibling's death.