خلاصه داستان : پس از آزادی از زندان به دلیل ضرب و شتم وحشیانه یک مرد سیاهپوست، دانی، بوکسور جوان سفیدپوست، توسط پدر قربانیش، جورج، برای مبارزه ای با یک حریف با استعداد و انتقام جو، اوسی، مربیگری می کند ...

Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home to the same violent and racist neighborhood that created him. At the other end of town, the black community still wants revenge. The instrument of justice will be Ossie Paris, a devastatingly talented boxer who challenges Donnie to a match; a match Donnie's family and peers won't let him refuse. George Carvery has waited nine years to avenge his son's fate at the hands of Donnie. When finally they meet face to face, however, both realize they share a similar desire to overcome the past.

خلاصه داستان : فیلم دو داستان مجزا را روایت می کند که در آخر به هم مربوط می شوند اولی داستان یک معلم موسیقی که به بیماری قلبی مبتلا است و دومی داستان یک وکیل و همسرش که در آستانه جدا شدن از یکدیگر هستند...

Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.